Mercury, PM2.5 and gaseous co-pollutants in the Ohio River Valley region: Preliminary results from the Athens supersite

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 6650-6665

  Yatavelli, Reddy L N ^a   Fahrni, Jason K ^a   Kim, Myoungwoo ^a   Crist, Kevin C ^a   Vickers, Christopher D ^a   Winter, Stephen E ^b   Connell, Daniel P ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b South Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient mercury measurements; Hgp; Hg0; Mercury deposition; RGM

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GASEOUS EFFLUENTS; IMPURITIES; POLLUTION; POWER PLANTS;

AMBIENT MERCURY MEASUREMENTS; MERCURY DEPOSITION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

AIR QUALITY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; UNITED STATES; WEATHER; WET DEPOSITION;

ATHENS [GEORGIA]; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748420087     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.05.072     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. 3 and OH in the atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment 39 (2005) 3355-3367
2. Carpi A. Mercury from combustion sources: a review of the chemical species emitted and their transport in the atmosphere. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 98 (1997) 241-254
3. Connell D.P., Withum J.A., Winter S.E., Statnick R.M., and Bilonick R.A. The Steubenville comprehensive air monitoring program (SCAMP): associations among fine particulate matter, co-pollutants, and meteorological conditions. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 55 (2005) 481-496
4. 2.5 concentrations using hourly air monitoring data. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 55 (2005) 559-573
5. Friedli H.R., Radke L.F., Prescott R., Li P., Woo J.-H., and Carmichael G.R. Mercury in the atmosphere around Japan, Korea, and China as observed during the 2001 ACE-Asia field campaign: measurements, distributions, sources, and implications. Journal of Geophysical Research 109 (2004) D19S25
6. Han Y., Holsen T., Lai S., Hopke P., Yi S., Liu W., Pagano J., Falanga L., Milligan M., and Andolina C. Atmospheric gaseous mercury concentrations in New York state: relationships with meteorological data and other pollutants. Atmospheric Environment 38 (2004) 6431-6446
7. Jaffe D., Prestbo E., Swartzendruber P., Weiss-Penzias P., Kato S., Takami A., Hatakeyama S., and Kajii Y. Export of atmospheric mercury from Asia. Atmospheric Environment 39 (2005) 3029-3038
8. Kim K.-H., and Kim M.-Y. The effects of anthropogenic sources on temporal distribution characteristics of total gaseous mercury in Korea. Atmospheric Environment 34 (2000) 3337-3347
9. Landis M.S., Stevens R.K., Schaedlich F., and Prestbo E. Development and characterization of an annular denuder methodology for the measurement of divalent inorganic reactive gaseous mercury in ambient air. Environmental Science and Technology 36 (2002) 3000-3009
10. Lin C.-J., and Pehkonen S.O. The chemistry of atmospheric mercury: a review. Atmospheric Environment 33 (1999) 2067-2079
11. Lindberg S.E., and Stratton W.J. Atmospheric speciation concentration and behavior of reactive gaseous mercury in ambient air. Environmental Science Technology 32 (1998) 49-57
12. Lindberg S.E., Brooks S., Lin C.-J., Scott K.J., Landis M.S., Stevens R.K., Goodsite M., and Richter A. Dynamic oxidation of gaseous mercury in the arctic troposphere at polar sunrise. Environmental Science and Technology 36 (2002) 1245-1256
13. Lynam M.M., and Keeler G.J. Source-receptor relationships for atmospheric mercury in urban Detroit, Michigan. Atmospheric Environment 40 (2006) 3144-3155
14. Lindqvist O., and Rodhe H. Atmospheric mercury-a review. Tellus 27B (1985) 136-159
15. Mercury Deposition Network, 2003. National Atmospheric Deposition Program website, 〈http://nadp.sws.uiuc.edu/nadpdata/mdnsites.asp〉 [Accessed July 2005].
16. Meyer M.B., Patashnick H., Ambs J.L., and Rupprecht E.G. Development of a sample equilibration system for the TEOM continuous PM monitor. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 50 (2000) 1345-1349
17. Pacyna E.G., and Pacyna J.M. Global emission of mercury from anthropogenic sources in 1995. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 137 (2002) 149-165
18. 10 Measurement using the tapered element oscillating microbalance. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 47 (1991) 1079-1083
19. Pirrone N., Costa P., Pacyna J.M., and Ferrara R. Mercury emissions to the atmosphere from natural and anthropogenic sources in the Mediterranean region. Atmospheric Environment 35 (2001) 2997-3006
20. p) in southern Québec, Canada. Atmospheric Environment 39 (2005) 1275-1287
21. 10) monitor (AB serial numbers), Revision B.
22. Research Triangle Institute (RTI). Standard operating procedure for the determination of organic, elemental, and total carbon in particulate matter using a thermal/optical-transmittance carbon analyzer (2003), Environmental & Industrial Sciences Division, Research Triangle Park, NC
23. Schroeder W.H., and Munthe J. Atmospheric mercury-an overview. Atmospheric Environment 32 (1998) 809-822
24. Schroeder W.H., Anlauf K.G., Barrie L.A., Lu J.Y., Steffen A., Schneeberger D.R., and Berg T. Artic springtime depletion of mercury. Nature 394 (1998) 331-332
25. Schwab J.J., Spicer J., Demerjian K.L., Ambs J.L., and Felton H.D. Long-term field characterization of tapered element oscillating microbalance and modified tapered element oscillating microbalance samplers in urban and rural New York State locations. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 54 (2004) 1264-1280
26. Sickles J.E. A Summary of airborne concentrations of sulfur- and nitrogen- containing pollutants in the northeastern United States. Journal of Air and Waste Management Association 49 (1999) 882-893
27. Sweet, C., Prestbo, E., 1999. Wet deposition of mercury in the US and Canada. Presented at Mercury in the Environment Specialty Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 15-17 September.
28. 2.5 mass concentrations: revisiting common assumptions for estimating organic mass. Aerosol Science and Technology 35 (2001) 602-610
29. US EPA Mercury Study Report to Congress, 1997. vol. III: Fate and Transport of Mercury in the Environment. Report number EPA-452/R-97-005 available on the World Wide Web at 〈http://www.epa.gov/ttn/uatw/112nmerc/mercury.html〉.
30. US EPA, 1998. Quality Assurance Handbook for Air Pollution Measurement Systems, vol. II, Ambient Air Quality Monitoring pRogram Quality System Development. Report number EPA-454/R-98-004, available on the World Wide Web at 〈http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/quality.html〉.
31. US EPA, 1999. Protection of Environment Chapter I, Part 58: Ambient Air Quality Surveillance. Appendix B - Quality Assurance Requirements for Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Air Monitoring. Code of Federal Regulations, Part 58.61, Title 40.
32. Vermette S., Lindberg S., and Bloom N. Field tests for a regional mercury deposition network-sampling design and preliminary test results. Atmospheric Environment 29 (1995) 1247-1251