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Title: | Regional air pollution caused by a simultaneous destruction of major industrial sources in a war zone. The case of April Serbia in 1999 | Authors: | Vukmirović, Zorka B. Unkašević, Miroslava Lazić, Lazar Tošić, Ivana |
Keywords: | Accidental gas release;Particulate matter;Pollutant transport modelling;POP deposition;War-impact assessment | Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2001 | Journal: | Atmospheric Environment | Abstract: | During NATO's 78-day Kosovo war, 24 March-10 June 1999, almost daily attacks on major industrial sources have caused numerous industrial accidents in Serbia. These accidents resulted in releases of many hazardous chemical substances including the persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Detection of some important POPs in fine aerosol form took place at Xanthi in Greece and reported to the scientific world. The paper focuses on two pollution episodes: (a) 6-8 April; and (b) 18-20 April. Using the Eta model trajectory analysis, the regional pollutant transport from industrial sites in Northern Serbia (Novi Sad) and in the Belgrade vicinity (Pančevo), respectively, almost simultaneously bombed at midnight between 17 and 18 April, corroborated measurements at Xanthi. At the same time the pollutant puff was picked up at about 3000m and transported to Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Moldavia and the Black Sea. The low-level trajectories from Pančevo below 1000m show pollutant transport towards Belgrade area in the first 12h. The POP washout in central and southern Serbia in the second episode was deemed to have constituted the principal removal mechanism. Maximum POP wet deposition was found in central Serbia and along the 850hPa trajectory towards south-eastern Serbia and the Bulgarian border. Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. |
URI: | https://physrep.ff.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1130 | ISSN: | 1352-2310 | DOI: | 10.1016/S1352-2310(00)00530-6 |
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