Global concentrations of gaseous elemental mercury and reactive gaseous mercury in the marine boundary layer

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 7425-7430

  Soerensen, Anne L ^a   Skov, Henrik ^a   Jacob, Daniel J ^b   Soerensen, Britt T ^a,c   Johnson, Matthew S ^c  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS-BURNING; DIURNAL CYCLE; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; HIGH CONCENTRATION; IRELAND; MACE HEAD; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; NATURAL SOURCES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REACTIVE GASEOUS MERCURY; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HUMIDITY CONTROL; MERCURY (METAL);

GEMS;

MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOMASS BURNING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIURNAL ACTIVITY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONALITY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

AIR; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BOUNDARY LAYER; BURN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAS; HEAD; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFORMATION; IRELAND; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RADIATION; SEA; SEASON; SHIP; SPRING; SUMMER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BIOMASS; GASES; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MERCURY; OCEANS AND SEAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONNACHT; COUNTY GALWAY; IRELAND; MACE HEAD;

VINDULA ARSINOE;

EID: 77956038928     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903839n     Document Type: Article

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