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Spatio-temporal variations of sea surface halocarbon concentrations and fluxes from southern Yellow Sea

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Temporal and spatial distributions of five volatile halogenated organic compounds (VHOC), including chloroform (CHCl3), trichloroethylene (C2HCl3), bromodichloromethane (CHBrCl2), chlorodibromomethane (CHBr2Cl), and bromoform (CHBr3), were determined in the southern Yellow Sea (SYS) during four cruises from July 2008 to May 2009. The five VHOC distributed in the study area were affected by river inputs, anthropogenic activities, circulation system, and biological processes. In this study, CHCl3, CHBrCl2, CHBr2Cl, and CHBr3 concentrations showed significant differences between summer 2008 and spring 2009. The sea-to-air fluxes calculated using the equation of Liss and Merlivat (In: Buat-Menard P (ed) The role of air-sea exchange in geochemical cycling, 1986) indicated that the SYS was a source of CHCl3 and C2HCl3 to the atmosphere during the investigation period.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the captain and crew of the R/V Dong Fang Hong 2 for help and cooperation during the study. We are thankful to colleagues of our laboratory for their assistance in sample collection and Chl-a analysis. We also wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments and suggestions which greatly improved the manuscript. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41320104008 and 40776039), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Z2005E01), the Changjiang Scholars Program, Ministry of Education of China, and the Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province.

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    Gui-Peng Yang, Bin Yang, Xiao-Lan Lu, Hai-Bing Ding & Zhen He

  2. School of Ocean, Qinzhou University, Qinzhou, 535099, China

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Yang, GP., Yang, B., Lu, XL. et al. Spatio-temporal variations of sea surface halocarbon concentrations and fluxes from southern Yellow Sea. Biogeochemistry 121, 369–388 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-014-0007-x

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