Development and first results of an aircraft-based, high time resolution technique for gaseous elemental and reactive (oxidized) gaseous mercury

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7484-7489

  Swartzendruber, P C ^a,b,c   Jaffe, D A ^a,b   Finley, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL SCATTERING COEFFICIENT; DENUDERS; DETECTION LIMITS; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; GASEOUS MERCURY; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTION; LABORATORY TEST; LINEAR CORRELATION; PARTICULATE MERCURY; REACTIVE GASEOUS MERCURY; REAL TIME; TEST FLIGHTS; TOTAL MERCURIES;

AIRCRAFT; ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

AIR MASS; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PARTICULATE MATTER; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

AEROSOL; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; GAS; LABORATORY TEST;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AIRCRAFT; GASES; MERCURY;

EID: 70349630238     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901390t     Document Type: Article

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