Surface microlayer enrichment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in lower Chesapeake Bay
Conference
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OSTI ID:203614
- College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA (United States)
Surface microlayer samples were collected with a rotating cylinder sampler in the York River and Elizabeth River tributaries of lower Chesapeake Bay every other month from May 1994 to June, 1995. Spatial and temporal variabilities were also investigated over an annual cycle as well as shorter periods (i.e. days). All the samples were analyzed for 17 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, total suspended particulate matter (TSP), particular organic carbon (POC), total nitrogen(TN) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and selected samples for chlorophyll. TSP in the surface microlayer was 10 to 100 times higher than that in the related bulk water. Particle associated PAH concentrations were 20--50 times those in bulk surface water, whereas PAH concentrations in freely dissolved phase of the surface microlayer were 5--60 times higher than dissolved concentrations in the bulk water. Particulate PAH concentrations increase with TSP in the surface microlayer and dissolved PAH concentrations increase with DOC. Overall, surface microlayer characteristics were found to be significantly affected by hydrological and meteorological parameters.
- OSTI ID:
- 203614
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9511137--; ISBN 1-880611-03-1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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