A note on elevated total gaseous mercury concentrations downwind from an agriculture field during tilling

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 388, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 379-388

  Bash, Jesse O ^a   Miller, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture emission; Atmospheric deposition; Mercury flux measurements; Natural mercury emissions; Relaxed eddy accumulation

Indexed keywords

DIESEL FUELS; MANURES; SOILS; WIND;

AGRICULTURE FIELD; GASEOUS MERCURY; TILLING;

AGRICULTURE;

MERCURY;

ADVECTION; AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST CANOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAIZE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CANOPY; CORN; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS; CONNECTICUT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; VOLATILIZATION;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 37849006374     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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