Total gaseous mercury concentrations in ambient air in the eastern slope of Mt. Gongga, South-Eastern fringe of the Tibetan plateau, China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 970-979

  Fu, Xuewu ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Zhu, Wanze ^c   Wang, Shaofeng ^a   Lu, Julia ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^d RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Mt. Gongga; Southwest of China; Total gaseous mercury (TGM)

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FUELS; MERCURY (METAL); POLLUTION CONTROL;

MT. GONGGA; SOUTHWEST OF CHINA; TOTAL GASEOUS MERCURY (TGM);

AIR POLLUTION;

MERCURY; ZINC;

AMBIENT AIR; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GAS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMBUSTION; ECOSYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GONGGA MOUNTAIN; SICHUAN;

EID: 38849191710     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.10.018     Document Type: Article

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