Mercury emissions from the Idrija mercury mine measured by differential absorption lidar techniques and a point monitoring absorption spectrometer

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 4067-4074

  Grönlund, Rasmus ^a   Edner, Hans ^a   Svanberg, Sune ^a   Kotnik, Jože ^b   Horvat, Milena ^b  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric mercury flux; DIAL; Idrija; Mercury mine; OPO

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DISTILLATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY MINES; OPTICAL RADAR; RAIN;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY EMISSIONS;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

MERCURY; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DISTILLATION; INSTRUMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT; MINING; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; SLOVENIA; SPECTROMETER; TECHNIQUE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 21644487089     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.03.027     Document Type: Article

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