23 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emcon.2015.12.001 English eng David Allende Contributor <div class="u-margin-s-bottom" id="abspara0010" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Arial Unicode MS", serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px !important;">The setting up of a country or region-based inventory is considered a crucial step toward the elimination of worldwide persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contamination. Moreover, the need of comparable <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/emission-inventory" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">emission inventories</a> at city or region level is widely recognized to develop evidence-based policies accounting for the relation between emissions and institutional, socio-economic and demographic characteristics at small scale level.</div><div class="u-margin-s-bottom" id="abspara0015" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Arial Unicode MS", serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px !important;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Due to the low spatial and temporal resolution of the available measurements, highly variable air concentrations of several POPs have been observed in Latin American and Caribbean countries. This paper presents a high resolution spatially disaggregated <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/atmospheric-emission" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">atmospheric emission</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> inventory for selected POPs in order to assess the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/environmental-fate" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">environmental fate</a> of some of these compounds in a finer resolution. As study case we estimated releases to air of POPs in a typical mid-size urban conglomeration in Argentina. Inventoried compounds were total polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), total </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/pbde" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">polybrominated diphenyl ethers</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (PBDEs), total <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/ddt" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane</a> (DDT) on a sum basis, </span></span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/hexachlorobenzene" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">hexachlorobenzene</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (HCB) and dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs), for which emissions were estimated in 0.92 kg/year, 1.65 kg/year, 4.2E−02 kg/year (total sum of congeners), 0.86 kg/year and 4.4E−02 kg/year respectively, values that are in accordance with the geographic and economic context. Although emitting sources are quite varied, there are very clear trends, particularly in relation to open burning of municipal solid waste and <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/agrochemical" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">agrochemical</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> use as major contributors. Overall, the inventory provides valuable data for the analysis of the heterogeneity of <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/pollutant-emission" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">POP emissions</a><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and the necessary inputs for <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/air-quality-modeling" class="topic-link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); --sd-arp-topic-annotations-text-colour: #1f1f1f; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-hover-text-decoration-colour: #eb6500; --sd-arp-topic-annotations-focus-outline-colour: #eb6500; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(31, 31, 31); text-underline-offset: 1px;">air quality modeling</a>.</span></span></span></div> Elsevier March 2026 pdf Emerging Contaminants Inventory of primary emissions of selected persistent organic pollutants to the atmosphere in the area of Great Mendoza mixed material Elsevier