Air-sea exchange in the global mercury cycle

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Strode, Sarah A ^a   Jaeglé, Lyatt ^a   Selin, Noelle E ^b   Jacob, Daniel J ^b   Park, Rokjin J ^b   Yantosca, Robert M ^b   Mason, Robert P ^c   Slemr, Franz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERCURY (METAL); OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

EID: 34249682780     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002766     Document Type: Article

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