Distribution and wet deposition fluxes of total and methyl mercury in Wujiang River Basin, Guizhou, China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 7096-7103

  Guo, Yanna ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Li, Zhonggen ^a   He, Tianrong ^a,c   Yan, Haiyu ^a   Meng, Bo ^a,b   Zhang, Junfang ^a,b   Qiu, Guangle ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUIZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Methyl mercury; Precipitation; Seasonal and spatial distribution; Total mercury; Wet deposition fluxes; Wujiang River Basin

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MERCURY (METAL); PHASE SEPARATION; SEPARATION; TRACE ELEMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

METHYL MERCURY; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOTAL MERCURY; WET DEPOSITION FLUXES; WUJIANG RIVER BASIN;

DEPOSITION;

METHYLMERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METHYLMERCURY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETRY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACE METAL; WET DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WET DEPOSITION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUIZHOU; WUJIANG BASIN;

EID: 51349094584     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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