Mercury distribution and transport across the ocean-sea-ice-atmosphere interface in the arctic ocean

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1866-1872

  Chaulk, Amanda ^a   Stern, Gary A ^a,b   Armstrong, Debbie ^a   Barber, David G ^a   Wang, Feiyue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC MARINE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC SEA-ICE; BEAUFORT SEA; CHANGING CLIMATE; CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS; FIRST-YEAR; FOOD WEBS; FROST FLOWERS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; ICE CORE; ICE LAYERS; MERCURY DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MULTIPLE-PEAK; POTENTIAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SNOW COVERS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ECOSYSTEMS; LEACHING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SEA ICE; SNOW;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BRINE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; FOOD WEB; GROWING SEASON; ICE CORE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE POLLUTION; MELTING; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; TRANSFORMATION;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA; SEA ICE; WATER POLLUTANT;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE; MERCURY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SALTS; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA;

EID: 79952172920     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103434c     Document Type: Article

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