A comprehensive Eulerian modeling framework for airborne mercury species: Development and testing of the Tropospheric Chemistry Module (TCM)

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 829-843

  Petersen, G ^a   Munthe, J ^b   Pleijel, K ^b   Bloxam, R ^c   Kumar, A Vinod ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^d BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Atmospheric mercury chemistry; Cloud processes; Eulerian models; Mercury species; Numerical modeling; Wet deposition

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITION AND OXIDANT MODEL (ADOM); CLOUD MIXING; EULERIAN MODELS; TROPOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY MODULES (TCM); WET DEPOSITION;

DEPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERCURY (METAL); PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

MERCURY;

AIR POLLUTION; MERCURY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT; MERCURY; TROPOSPHERE;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLOUD; CONFERENCE PAPER; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032031017     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00049-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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