Total and monomethyl mercury in fog water from the central California coast

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Weiss Penzias, Peter S ^a   Ortiz, Cruz ^a   Acosta, R Paul ^a   Heim, Wesley ^b   Ryan, John P ^c   Fernandez, Daniel ^d   Collett, Jeffrey L ^e   Flegal, A Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; COASTAL ZONES; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RAIN; FOG;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; CALIFORNIA; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; COASTAL UPWELLING; DRY DEPOSITION; FOG WATER; MONOMETHYL MERCURY; MONTEREY BAY , CALIFORNIA; RAIN WATER; TOTAL MERCURIES; METHYL MERCURY;

FOG; DEPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOG; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; RAINWATER; UPWELLING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RAINFALL;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856846488     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050324     Document Type: Article

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