Contribution of MSC-E to AMAP/RAIPON/GEF project
"Persistent Toxic Substances (PTS), Food Security and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North"

EMEP/MSC-E Technical Report for AMAP
"Assessment of long-range transport of Hg, PCBs and g-HCH to the Russian North"

	Executive Summary	2.5 Mb
	Technical Report
	TITLE and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
	SUMMARY
	CONTENTS
	INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1.	SELECTED REGIONS OF RUSSIAN ARCTIC AND FACTORS AFFECTING THEIR POLLUTION
Chapter 2.	PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MERCURY AND SELECTED POPs
Chapter 3.	MODEL APPROACHES AND INPUT DATA
Chapter 4.	EMISSION SOURCES
Chapter 5.	ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION OF MERCURY TO THE ARCTIC REGION
Chapter 6.	ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION OF PCBs TO THE ARCTIC REGION
Chapter 7.	ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION OF g-HCH TO THE ARCTIC REGION
Chapter 8.	RELIABILITY OF THE ASSESSMENT RESULTS
	CONCLUSIONS
Annex A.	MODELING RESULTS OF TRANSPORT OF PCB-28, 118 AND 180
Annex B.	ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT MODULE VERIFICATION
Annex C.	METEOROLOGICAL DATA FOR HEMISPHERIC MODELS
Annex D.	SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE SOIL MODULE
Annex E.	SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE OCEANIC TRANSPORT MODULE
Annex F.	ADDITIONAL COMPUTATION EXPERIMENTS