Study of atmospheric mercury budget in East Asia using STEM-Hg modeling system

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3277-3291

  Pan, Li ^a   Lin, Che Jen ^a,b   Carmichael, Gregory R ^c   Streets, David G ^d   Tang, Youhua ^e   Woo, Jung Hun ^f   Shetty, Suraj K ^a   Chu, Hsing Wei ^a   Ho, Thomas C ^a   Friedli, Hans R ^g   Feng, Xinbin ^h  

^a Lamar University   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^f Department of Advanced Technology Fusion ^*  (South Korea)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical transport; East Asia; Mass budget; Mercury; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; ANTHROPOGENIC MERCURY EMISSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT; COASTAL AREA; DRY AND WET DEPOSITIONS; EAST ASIA; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; MASS BUDGET; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; MODEL DOMAINS; MODEL RESULTS; MODELING SYSTEMS; OXIDATION RATES; PARTICULATE MERCURY; POINT SOURCES; REACTIVE GASEOUS MERCURY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE REGION; TOTAL MERCURIES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BUDGET CONTROL; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITION; MASS TRANSFER;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; AIR POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXIDATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPRING; SULFUR TRANSPORT EULERIAN MODEL; SUMMER; WET DEPOSITION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; MERCURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS;

FAR EAST;

EID: 77953716728     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.039     Document Type: Article

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