Measure and modeling the ambient air particles and particle bound mercury Hg(p) at a traffic sampling site

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 97-105

  Fang, Guor Cheng ^a   Yang, I Lin ^a   Liu, Chia Kuan ^a  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dry deposition model; Overhead projection film; Particle bound mercury; Quartz filter

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICULATE; DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; DRY DEPOSITION; DRY DEPOSITION FLUXES; DRY DEPOSITION MODEL; DRY DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC; MEAN VALUES; PARTICLE BOUND MERCURY; PARTICULATE BOUND MERCURY; QUARTZ FILTERS; SAMPLING PERIOD; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES; TRAFFIC SAMPLING;

CURING; MERCURY (METAL); OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; SAMPLING;

DEPOSITION;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRY DEPOSITION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MODELING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

SHALU; TAIWAN;

EID: 77953807099     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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