Quantifying Asian and biomass burning sources of mercury using the Hg/CO ratio in pollution plumes observed at the Mount Bachelor observatory

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4366-4379

  Weiss Penzias, Peter ^a   Jaffe, Dan ^a   Swartzendruber, Phil ^a   Hafner, William ^a   Chand, Duli ^a   Prestbo, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b Frontier Geosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; CD; China; Emissions; Long range transport; Mercury

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMBUSTION; MERCURY (METAL); SATELLITES; SCATTERING; THERMAL PLUMES; TRAJECTORIES;

BIOMASS BURNING; LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT; TOTAL AIRBORNE MERCURY (TAM);

AIR POLLUTION;

CARBON MONOXIDE; MERCURY; NITROGEN OXIDE;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON MONOXIDE; EMISSION INVENTORY; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; TRAJECTORY;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CALCULATION; FIRE; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34248634585     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.01.058     Document Type: Article

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