Measurements of atmospheric mercury species during an international study of mercury depletion events at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, spring 2003. How reproducible are our present methods?

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 39 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 7607-7619

  Aspmo, Katrine ^a,b   Gauchard, Pierre Alexis ^c   Steffen, Alexandra ^d   Temme, Christian ^e   Berg, Torunn ^a   Bahlmann, Enno ^e   Banic, Cathy ^d   Dommergue, Aurelien ^c   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^e   Ferrari, Christophe ^c   Pirrone, Nicola ^f   Sprovieri, Francesca ^f   Wibetoe, Grethe ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arctic; Gaseous elemental mercury; Intercomparison; Particle bound mercury; Reactive gaseous mercury; Round robin test procedures

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; MERCURY (METAL); PHOSPHORUS;

ARCTIC; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY (GEM); INTERCOMPARISON; PARTICLE BOUND MERCURY; REACTIVE GASEOUS MERCURY (RGM); ROUND ROBIN TEST PROCEDURES;

METAL ANALYSIS;

MERCURY;

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

ACCURACY; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERE; AUTOMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; STATISTICS; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 27744516110     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.07.065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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