Simulation of the regional atmospheric transport and fate of mercury using a comprehensive Eulerian model

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2717-2732

  Pai, Prasad ^a,b   Karamchandani, Prakash ^a,b   Seigneur, Christian ^b,c  

^a ENSR Consulting and Engineering   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ENSR Consulting and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Cloud processes; Dry deposition; Eulerian; Mercury; Model evaluation; Modeling; Three dimensional; Wet deposition

Indexed keywords

EULERIAN MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERCURY (METAL);

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

MERCURY; RAIN;

AIR POLLUTION; MERCURY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EULERIAN MODEL; MERCURY; MODEL EVALUATION; WET DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLOUD; DRY DEPOSITION; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES; WIND;

USA;

MERCURIALIS ANNUA;

EID: 0031238592     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00102-7     Document Type: Article

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