Mercury emissions from burning of biomass from temperate North American forests: Laboratory and airborne measurements

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-267

  Friedli, H R ^a   Radke, L F ^a   Lu, J Y ^b,c   Banic, C M ^b   Leaitch, W R ^b   MacPherson, J I ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Mercury emission; Mercury release; Mercury speciation; Smoke plumes; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BIOMASS; COMBUSTION; MERCURY (METAL); PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SMOKE; VEGETATION;

WILDFIRE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL; MERCURY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS BURNING; EMISSION INVENTORY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); WILDFIRE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DRY MASS; FIRE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; SOIL; TAIGA; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; VEGETATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0037213272     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00819-1     Document Type: Article

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