The Henry's law constant (H) is an important parameter that is required to estimate the air-water exchange of semivolatile organic compounds. Henry's law constants for 17 banned/restricted/currently used organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were experimentally determined using a gas-stripping technique in deionized and saline water (3%) over a temperature range of 5-35 1C. H values (at 25 1C) ranged between 0.06670.037 Pa m 3 mol À1 (endosulfan II) and 62.0724.2 Pa m 3 mol À1 (heptachlor) in deionized water while the range in saline water was 0.2870.03 Pa m 3 mol À1 (g-HCH) and 135.2731.3 Pa m 3 mol À1 (heptachlor). The increase in dimensionless Henry's law constants (H 0 ) for OCPs over the studied temperature range was between 3 (g-HCH)-19 times (chlorpyrifos) and 3 (endosulfan II)-80 times (transnonachlor) in deionized and saline water, respectively. The calculated enthalpies of phase change (DH H ) were within the ranges previously reported for OCPs and other organic compounds (23.8-100.2 kJ mol À1 ). The salting-out constant, k s , ranged between 0.04 (g-HCH) and 1.80 L mol À1 (endosulfan II) indicating the importance of assessing the H values of OCPs in saline water to accurately determine their partitioning and fate in seawater. r

The publisher regrets that the second paragraph on p. 4545 was printed incorrectly. It now appears correctly, below.The presence of salts in aqueous solution affects the solubility of organic molecules, through the salting-out effect (Demou and Donaldson, 2002). The salting-out is defined as the decrease in aqueous solubility and increase in the activity coefficient observed for neutral non-polar compounds by dissolved inorganic salts. Ions in solution tightly bind several water molecules into hydration shells. This process (electrostriction), results in a reduction of the volume of the aqueous solution. A smaller aqueous volume results in less available water for cavity formation, and therefore less organic molecules are accommodated; their solubility decreases as a consequence (Schwarzenbach et al., 2002; Demou and Donaldson, 2002). The empirical relation for the effect of ionic strength on Henry's law constant is described by Setschenow equation (Demou and Donaldson, 2002