Global source-receptor relationships for mercury deposition under present-day and 2050 emissions scenarios

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 10477-10484

  Corbitt, Elizabeth S ^a   Jacob, Daniel J ^a,b   Holmes, Christopher D ^c   Streets, David G ^d   Sunderland, Elsie M ^b,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DEPOSITION; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC MERCURY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EFFECTIVE LIFETIME; EMISSIONS SCENARIOS; GLOBAL MODELS; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL POLICIES; MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; OCEAN BASINS; PHOTO-REDUCTION; RAPID CYCLING; RE-EMISSION; SOIL POOLS; SOURCE-RECEPTOR RELATIONSHIPS; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; SURFACE OCEAN; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); OCEANOGRAPHY;

SOIL POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLLUTION POLICY; RECYCLING; REDUCTION; RESERVOIR; SEAWATER; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; POLLUTION; RECYCLING; REDUCTION; SEA; SOIL;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; MERCURY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

ASIA;

EID: 80455137335     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202496y     Document Type: Article

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