Atmospheric mercury in Changbai Mountain area, northeastern China II. The distribution of reactive gaseous mercury and particulate mercury and mercury deposition fluxes

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 721-727

  Wan, Qi ^a,b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Lu, Julia ^c   Zheng, Wei ^a,b   Song, Xinjie ^c   Li, Ping ^a,b   Han, Shijie ^d   Xu, Hao ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dry deposition flux; Particulate mercury; Reactive gaseous mercury; Total mercury; Wet deposition flux

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; RAIN;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DRY DEPOSITION; EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RAINWATER; SNOW; WET DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHINA; DRY DEPOSITION; FALLING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SPRING; SUMMER; WET DEPOSITION; WIND; WINTER;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASES; MERCURY; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS;

ASIA; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TIANCHI VOLCANO;

EID: 67649389361     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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