Profiles of Mercury in the snow pack at Station Nord, Greenland shortly after polar sunrise

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Ferrari, Christophe P ^a,b   Dommergue, Aurélien ^a   Boutron, Claude F ^a,c   Jitaru, Petru ^d   Adams, Freddy C ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Polytech Grenoble   (France)

^c UFR de Mecanique et de Physique   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; IRRADIATION; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION; SNOW; SOLAR ENERGY;

SNOW PACK; SNOW SURFACES; SOLAR IRRADIATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; SNOWPACK;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 1942433222     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018961     Document Type: Article

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