Novel dynamic flux chamber for measuring air-surface exchange of Hg o from soils

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 8910-8920

  Lin, Che Jen ^a,b,c   Zhu, Wei ^a,d   Li, Xianchang ^b   Feng, Xinbin ^a   Sommar, Jonas ^a   Shang, Lihai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b Lamar University   (United States)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR-SURFACE EXCHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TECHNIQUE; DATA REPRODUCIBILITY; DFC METHOD; DIFFERENT SIZES; DYNAMIC FLUX CHAMBER; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIELD APPLICATION; FIELD STUDIES; FLAT SURFACES; FLUX MEASUREMENTS; INTEGRATED MODELING; INTERNAL VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; MICROMETEOROLOGICAL METHODS; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL RESULTS; NEW DESIGN; POLYCARBONATE SHEETS; SHEAR PROPERTIES; SURFACE FRICTION VELOCITY; SURFACE SHEAR; VELOCITY PROFILES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; MERCURY (METAL); SAMPLING; VELOCITY;

SOILS;

MERCURY; POLYCARBONATE;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUX CHAMBER; FLUX MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MICROMETEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURFACE; SUBSTRATE; VELOCITY PROFILE;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC FLUX CHAMBER METHOD; FLOW RATE; FRICTION; METHODOLOGY; SOIL;

AIR; MERCURY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84865526265     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3012386     Document Type: Article

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