Mercury as a pollutant in Siberia: Sources, fluxes and a regional budget

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 73-84

  Vasiliev, O F ^a   Obolenskiy, A A ^b   Yagolnitser, M A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Contribution to the global cycle; Industrial emission; Mercury; Natural emission; Numerical estimates; Regional atmospheric budget

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; MERCURY;

MERCURY; POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MERCURIALISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SIBERIA;

EID: 0032503587     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00079-5     Document Type: Article

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