Total particulate and reactive gaseous mercury in ambient air on the eastern slope of the Mt. Gongga area, China

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 408-418

  Fu, Xuewu ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Zhu, Wanze ^c   Zheng, Wei ^a,b   Wang, Shaofeng ^a,b   Lu, Julia Y ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; MERCURY (METAL); PHOTOOXIDATION;

REACTIVE GASEOUS MERCURY (RGM); TOTAL PARTICULATE MERCURY (TPM);

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AMBIENT AIR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHOTOOXIDATION; SLOPE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; URBAN AREA; WET DEPOSITION;

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

EID: 40149100763     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.12.018     Document Type: Article

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