Naturally and anthropogenically produced bromoform in the Kattegatt, a semi-enclosed oceanic basin
✍ Scribed by Elisabet Fogelqvist; Mikael Krysell
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 755 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-7764
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✦ Synopsis
The origin of bromoform in seawater and atmosphere, as well as possible sinks and breakdown mechanisms, is discussed. A bromoform budget is calculated for the Kattegatt area between Sweden and Denmark, where the input of bromoform from a power plant is significant. Both anthropogenically (250 X IO" g yr-') and biogenically (350 X IO" g yr-', 0.016 g m-' yr-') produced bromoform is likely to have a great impact locally on the inventory and the release to the atmosphere. Using measured surface concentrations of bromoform. the total annual release from the Kattegatt to the atmosphere is estimated to 550 X 111" p (0.W5 g m-' yr-I).