Total depletion of Hg° in the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Talbot, Robert ^a   Mao, H ^a   Scheuer, E ^a   Dibb, J ^a   Avery, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHEMICAL CYCLING; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GAS PHASE REACTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 39049123198     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031366     Document Type: Article

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