Oxidation of gaseous elemental mercury to gaseous divalent mercury during 2003 polar sunrise at Ny-Alesund

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9156-9165

  Sprovieri, Francesca ^a   Pirrone, Nicola ^a   Landis, Matthew S ^b   Stevens, Robert K ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEMS; MERCURY (METAL); OZONE; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; MERCURY DEPLETION EVENT (MDE); PANICULATE MERCURY; POLAR ECOSYSTEMS;

OXIDATION;

MERCURY; OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; POLAR REGION;

AIR; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; AUTOANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOSYSTEM; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; MASS; OXIDATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SAMPLING; SPRING;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CATIONS, DIVALENT; GASES; MERCURY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

ARCTIC; NY-ALESUND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 28444488873     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050965o     Document Type: Article

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