Fast depletion of gaseous elemental mercury in the Kongsvegen Glacier snowpack in Svalbard

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Fain, Xavier ^a   Ferrari, Christophe P ^a   Gauchard, Pierre Alexis ^a   Magand, Olivier ^a   Boutron, Claude ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MERCURY DEPOSITS; OXIDATION; RATE CONSTANTS;

GASEOUS ELEMENTARY MERCURY; KONGSVEGEN GLACIER; SECOND ORDER REACTION RATE CONSTANT;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; SNOWPACK;

ARCTIC; KONGSVEGEN GLACIER; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 33646448159     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025223     Document Type: Article

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