On artificial dilution of point source mercury emissions in a regional atmospheric model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 259, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 159-168

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

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid; Mercury; Regional atmospheric model

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DILUTION; EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034597287     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00579-9     Document Type: Article

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