Seasonal soil compartment model

Bonazountas, M. J. Wagner (1981). SESOIL A seasonal soil compartment model. Office of Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. 

Bonazountas, M. and Wagner, J. M. (1984) SESOIL A Seasonal Soil Compartment Model (prepared for the Office of Toxic Substances, US EPA), Arthur D. Little, Cambridge, MA. 

The behavior of MTBE through the different environmental compartments has been investigated using various modelling approaches. For example, the EU risk assessment used the simplest type of fugacity models (a Level 1 model) and concluded that from diffuse sources 93.9% of MTBE is in the air phase, 6.0% in the water phase, and 0.05% in the soil phase [2]. However, another study by Environment Canada for Southern Ontario [61] used the Level III model and predicted 56% of MTBE in the air, 42% in surface water, and 0.5% in soil and sediment. As can be observed, models developed so far differed in their predictions of relative MTBE concentrations for relevant environmental compartments and of seasonal concentration variations further, they have hardly considered the formation of transformation products [62]. Moreover, limitations in pollutant environmental data or key physicochemical parameters often make it difficult to validate model predictions. 

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