Download or read book The Fate of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the North Sea written by Tatjana P. Ilyina and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a description of FANTOM, an ocean model, that has been developed to investigate the fate of selected POPs in the North Sea. The main focus of the model is on quantifying the distribution of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and their aquatic pathways. The model was applied for the southern North Sea and tested by studying the behavior of g-HCH, a-HCH and PCB 153 in sea water.