Total mercury and methylmercury in high altitude surface snow from the french alps

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3949-3954

  Marusczak, Nicolas ^a,b   Larose, Catherine ^c   Dommergue, Aurélien ^a,d   Yumvihoze, Emmanuel ^e   Lean, David ^e   Nedjai, Rachid ^b   Ferrari, Christophe ^a,d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b Laboratoire PACTE   (France)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric deposition processes; French alps; Mercury; Methylmercury; Particles; Snow

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION PROCESS; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; FRENCH ALPS; HIGH ALTITUDE; IN-SITU; METHYL MERCURY; PARTICLE DISTRIBUTIONS; PARTICLE LOAD; RISING TEMPERATURES; SNOW SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE SNOW; TOTAL MERCURIES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SNOW;

CHLORIDE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; SULFATE;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SNOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FRANCE; LAKE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNOW COVER;

ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASONS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

ALPS;

EID: 80051801791     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.06.040     Document Type: Article

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