Mercury in the Southern Ocean

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4037-4052

  Cossa, Daniel ^a   Heimbürger, Lars Eric ^a   Lannuzel, Delphine ^b,c   Rintoul, Stephen R ^b,d,e   Butler, Edward C V ^b,d,e   Bowie, Andrew R ^b   Averty, Bernard ^a   Watson, Roslyn J ^d   Remenyi, Tomas ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FRACTIONATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OPEN OCEAN; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SNOW; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER COLUMN;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIA;

EID: 79958841779     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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