Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 425

The DOI matches its Crossref record.

Assessing the long-range transport potential of polybrominated diphenyl ethers: A comparison of four multimedia models

Wania, Frank, Dugani, Chandrasagar B.·2003·Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
DOI 10.1002/etc.5620220610
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Data from a comprehensive literature search of environmentally relevant physical-chemical properties for nine poly-brominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), ranging from a monobrominated congener to the fully brominated decabromodiphenyl ether, were evaluated and adjusted to achieve both internal and interhomologue consistency. These data were then used in four model-based long-range transport potential (LRTP) assessment methods. The models TaPL3-2.10, ELPOS-1.1.1, Chemrange-2, and Globo-POP-1.1 were found to yield comparable predictions. A comparison of the LRTP estimates for the PBDEs with those of benchmark chemicals (polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]) suggest that the lower-brominated congeners have a LRTP comparable to that of PCBs known to be subject to significant LRT, whereas the highly brominated congeners have a very low potential to reach remote areas. This is in agreement with field measurements in remote regions that indicate that the lighter components of commercially produced PBDE mixtures predominate. Deviations between Chemrange and the models based on the concept of a characteristic travel distance were due to differences in the assumed height of the air compartment, which influences the relative importance of atmospheric degradation and deposition processes. The three models assuming a uniform temperature of 25°C may underestimate the LRTP of the smaller congeners. Only atmospheric parameters had a notable influence on the LRTP estimates by TaPL3, ELPOS, and Chemrange, whereas the relative enrichment of chemicals in the Arctic calculated by Globo-POP is additionally sensitive to the parameters related to the interaction of temperature with air—surface exchange and degradation in surface compartments.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1002/etc.5620220610

Cites

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

No references could be resolved yet.

Research works printed but not linked: 34

  1. Renner, 2000, What fate for brominated fire retardants?, Environ Sci Technol, 34, 223A
  2. World Health Organization, 1994, Brominated Diphenyl Ethers
  3. Peltola, 2001, Pentabromodiphenyl ether as a global POP. TemaNord 2001: 579, 79
  4. Norén, 2000, Certain organochlorine and organobromine contaminants in Swedish human milk in perspective of past 20–30 years, Chemosphere, 40, 1111, 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00360-4 · DOI · Paper page
  5. United Nations Environmental Programme Chemicals, 2001, Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)—Text and annexes
  6. Rodan, 1999, Screening for persistent organic pollutants techniques to provide a scientific basis for POPs criteria in international negotiations, Environ Sci Technol, 33, 3482, 10.1021/es980060t · doi:10.1021/es980060t
  7. Betts, 2002, Flame-proofing the Arctic?, Environ Sci Technol, 36, 189A
  8. Scheringer, 2001, The spatial scale of organic chemicals in multimedia fate modeling—Recent developments and significance for chemical assessment, Environ Sci Pollut Res, 8, 150, 10.1007/BF02987378 · doi:10.1007/bf02987378
  9. Van de Meent, 2001, Evaluation of Persistence and Long-Range Transport of Organic Chemicals in the Environment, 169
  10. Scheringer, 1996, Persistence and spatial range as endpoints of an exposure-based assessment of organic chemicals, Environ Sci Technol, 30, 1652, 10.1021/es9506418 · DOI · Paper page
  11. Beyer, 2000, Assessing long-range transport potential of persistent organic pollutants, Environ Sci Technol, 34, 699, 10.1021/es990207w · DOI · Paper page
  12. Wania, 2001, Synopsis of Research Conducted under the 2000–2001 Northern Contaminants Program, 138
  13. Bennett, 2001, Predicting long range transport: A systematic evaluation of two multimedia transport models, Environ Sci Technol, 35, 1181, 10.1021/es001278u · DOI
  14. Beyer, 2001, Comparing assessment methods to determine the environmental spatial scale of organic chemicals, Environ Toxicol Chem, 20, 922, 10.1002/etc.5620200430 · doi:10.1002/etc.5620200430
  15. Beyer, 2002, Adjusting physical-chemical properties to internal constraints, Environ Toxicol Chem, 21, 941, 10.1002/etc.5620210508 · DOI · Paper page
  16. Palm, 2002, Assessing the environmental fate of chemicals of emerging concern: A case study of the polybrominated diphenyl ethers, Environ Pollut, 117, 195, 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00276-7 · doi:10.1016/s0269-7491(01)00276-7
  17. Wong, 2001, Vapor pressures of the polybrominated diphenyl ethers, J Chem Eng Data, 46, 239, 10.1021/je0002181 · DOI
  18. Tittlemier, 2001, Vapor pressures of six brominated diphenyl ethers, Environ Toxicol Chem, 20, 146
  19. Harner, 2002, Measurements of octanol-air partition coefficients (KOA) for polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs): Predicting partitioning in the environment, J Chem Eng Data, 47, 228, 10.1021/je010192t · DOI · Paper page
  20. Tittlemier, 2002, Vapor pressures, aqueous solubilities, and Henry's law constants of some brominated flame retardants, Environ Toxicol Chem, 21, 1804, 10.1002/etc.5620210907 · DOI · Paper page
  21. Beyer, 2003, Temperature dependence of the characteristic travel distance, Environ Sci Technol, 37, 766, 10.1021/es025717w · doi:10.1021/es025717w
  22. Bennett, 1998, General formulation of characteristic travel distance for semi-volatile organic chemicals in a multimedia environment, Environ Sci Technol, 32, 4023, 10.1021/es980328g · DOI · Paper page
  23. Mackay, 1996, Evaluating the environmental fate of a variety of types of chemicals using the EQC model, Environ Toxicol Chem, 15, 1627, 10.1002/etc.5620150929 · DOI · Paper page
  24. Scheringer, 1997, Characterization of the environmental distribution behavior of organic chemicals by means of persistence and spatial range, Environ Sci Technol, 31, 2891, 10.1021/es970090g · DOI
  25. Junge, 1977, Fate of Pollutants in the Air and Water Environments
  26. Pankow, 1994, An absorption model of gas/particle partitioning of organic compounds in the atmosphere, Atmos Environ, 28, 185, 10.1016/1352-2310(94)90093-0 · DOI · Paper page
  27. McLachlan, 2002, The influence of vertical sorbed phase transport on the fate of organic chemicals in surface soils, Environ Sci Technol, 36, 4860, 10.1021/es025662y · doi:10.1021/es025662y
  28. Atkinson, 1996, Chlorinated Organic Micropollutants, Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, No. 6, 53
  29. Wania, 2002, Estimating the contribution of various processes to the global loss of PCBs, Atmos Environ, 36, 5581, 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00693-3 · doi:10.1016/s1352-2310(02)00693-3
  30. Wania, 1993, Global fractionation and cold condensation of low volatility organochlorine compounds in polar regions, Ambio, 22, 10
  31. Wania, 1999, On the origin of elevated levels of persistent chemicals in the environment, Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 6, 11, 10.1007/BF02987114 · doi:10.1007/bf02987114
  32. Scheringer, 2000, Investigation of the cold condensation of persistent organic pollutants with a global multimedia fate model, Environ Sci Technol, 34, 1842, 10.1021/es991085a · DOI
  33. Ikonomou, 2002, Exponential increases of brominated flame retardants, polybrominated diphenylethers, in the Canadian Arctic from 1981–2000, Environ Sci Technol, 36, 1886, 10.1021/es011401x · DOI · Paper page
  34. Stern, 2000, Temporal trends of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in SE Baffin beluga: Increasing evidence of long range atmospheric transport, Organohalogen Compounds, 47, 81

Cited by

See all 425

Metadata

Authors
Wania, F., & Dugani, C. B.
Venue
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2003-06-01
Volume
22
Issue
6
Pages
1252-1261
ISSN
  • 0730-7268 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-8618
DOI
10.1002/etc.5620220610
OpenAlex
W2053267189
Cited by
425
References
0
FWCI
14.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Assessing the long-range transport potential of polybrominated diphenyl ethers: A comparison of four multimedia models. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1002/etc.5620220610
The paper
Wania, F., & Dugani, C. B. (2003). Assessing the long-range transport potential of polybrominated diphenyl ethers: A comparison of four multimedia models. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5620220610

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.