Atlantic mercury emission determined from continuous analysis of the elemental mercury sea-air concentration difference within transects between 50°N and 50°S

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kuss, J ^a   Zlicke, C ^b   Pohl, C ^a   Schneider, B ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; CONTINUOUS ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; HARMFUL EFFECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN HEALTH; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LOW WIND SPEED; MERCURY EMISSIONS; MERCURY REMOVAL; MIDLATITUDES; MONTHLY SCALE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRODUCTION RATES; SEASONAL SHIFTS; SINKING PARTICLES; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WET AND DRY; WIND SPEED;

MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; RATE CONSTANTS; TROPICS;

SURFACE WATERS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DRY DEPOSITION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MOBILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURFACE WATER; VOLATILE ELEMENT; WET DEPOSITION; WIND VELOCITY;

EUROPE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 80053013354     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003998     Document Type: Article

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