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dc.contributor.authorEvangeliou, Nikolaos
dc.contributor.authorGrythe, Henrik
dc.contributor.authorKlimont, Zbigniew
dc.contributor.authorHeyes, Chris
dc.contributor.authorEckhardt, Sabine
dc.contributor.authorLopez-Aparicio, Susana
dc.contributor.authorStohl, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-04T07:29:51Z
dc.date.available2020-08-04T07:29:51Z
dc.date.created2020-08-03T15:28:01Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationNature Communications. 2020, 11, 3381.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2670700
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, marine, freshwater and terrestrial pollution with microplastics has been discussed extensively, whereas atmospheric microplastic transport has been largely overlooked. Here, we present global simulations of atmospheric transport of microplastic particles produced by road traffic (TWPs – tire wear particles and BWPs – brake wear particles), a major source that can be quantified relatively well. We find a high transport efficiencies of these particles to remote regions. About 34% of the emitted coarse TWPs and 30% of the emitted coarse BWPs (100 kt yr−1 and 40 kt yr−1 respectively) were deposited in the World Ocean. These amounts are of similar magnitude as the total estimated direct and riverine transport of TWPs and fibres to the ocean (64 kt yr−1). We suggest that the Arctic may be a particularly sensitive receptor region, where the light-absorbing properties of TWPs and BWPs may also cause accelerated warming and melting of the cryosphere.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleAtmospheric transport is a major pathway of microplastics to remote regionsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© The Author(s) 2020en_US
dc.source.volume11en_US
dc.source.journalNature Communicationsen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41467-020-17201-9
dc.identifier.cristin1821400
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 275407en_US
dc.relation.projectNILU - Norsk institutt for luftforskning: 118063en_US
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