Measuring and modeling atmospheric particles and particle bound mercury Hg(p) at five characteristic-sampling sites

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1237-1247

  Fang, Guor Cheng ^a   Lo, Chaur Tsuen ^b   Huang, Winn Jung ^a   Chen, Jyh Cherng ^a   Wu, Yuh Shen ^a   Huang, Jun Han ^a   Huang, Yi Liang ^a  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dry deposition; Model; Particles; Particulate bound mercury Hg(p); TSP

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; DRY DEPOSITION; DRY DEPOSITION FLUXES; PARTICLE BOUND MERCURY; PARTICULATE-BOUND MERCURY HG(P); SEASONAL VARIATION; TOTAL SUSPENDED PARTICULATES; TSP;

DEPOSITION;

MERCURY (METAL);

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DRY DEPOSITION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED LOAD;

CHINA;

EID: 80054009255     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-0939-6     Document Type: Article

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