Mercury in the Arctic atmosphere: An analysis of eight years of measurements of GEM at Alert (Canada) and a comparison with observations at Amderma (Russia) and Kuujjuarapik (Canada)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 342, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 185-198

  Steffen, Alexandra ^a   Schroeder, William ^a   Macdonald, Rob ^b   Poissant, Laurier ^a   Konoplev, Alexei ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION TYPHOON   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic mercury; Gaseous elemental mercury; Mercury; Mercury depletion events; Time series

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC REGIONS; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY (GEM); MERCURY DEPLETION EVENTS (MDE); SEASONAL PATTERNS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; AUTUMN; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER;

ALERT; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 18144415429     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.12.048     Document Type: Article

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