Airborne metal pollutants in high elevation forests of southern Quebec, Canada, and their likely source regions

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-54

  Lin, Z Q ^a,d   Schemenauer, R S ^b   Schuepp, P H ^a   Barthakur, N N ^a   Kennedy, G G ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air mass back trajectories; Atmospheric metal pollution; High elevation forests

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FOREST; HIGH ELEVATION; METAL POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

CANADA, QUEBEC;

EID: 0030729826     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(97)00005-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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