(Updated: 5 Novmber 2007)

Jerzy Bartnicki - MSC-W of EMEP e-mail: jerzy.bartnicki@met.no
Alexey Gusev - MSC-E of EMEP e-mail: alexey.gusev@msceast.org
Wenche Aas - CCC of EMEP e-mail: wenche.aas@nilu.no
Hilde Fagerli - MSC - W of EMEP e-mail: hilde.fagerli@met.no

This report has been prepared for the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM), Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, based on the model estimates and monitoring results which have been presented to the thirty first session of the Steering Body of EMEP (Co-operative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of Long-Range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe). This present, ninth joint summary report for HELCOM includes the measurements and results of modelling in the Baltic Sea region for oxidized nitrogen, reduced nitrogen, lead, cadmium, mercury and dioxins/furans for the year 2005. It has been developed in a frame of close collaboration between three modelling and monitoring EMEP centres: MSC-W, MSC-E and CCC, and is available now on the EMEP WEB pages and later on the HELCOM WEB pages. The report, as a draft, was presented and discussed at the Tenth MONAS Meeting (2-6/10/2007) in Helsinki Finland, together with corresponding drafts of the Indicator Fact Sheets. Participants of this meeting were asked for the comments and corrections which are taken into account in the present final version of the report and Indicator Fact Sheets, as well. All comments/corrections received form the HELCOM Parties are listed on this site.

Acknowledgements. The authors are indebted to the scientific teams at MSC-E, MSC-W and CCC for providing the results included in this report and especially to Per Helmer Skaali for his help with the Internet related tasks. We are grateful to Ms. Marina Varygina, Dr. Ilia Iliyn and Prof. Victor Shatalov for their contribution to this work, valuable remarks and comments.

Separate Chapters of the report, as well as, links to the Indicator Fact Sheets can be found below.

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