Wet deposition of mercury at a remote site in the Tibetan Plateau: Concentrations, speciation, and fluxes

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 540-550

  Huang, Jie ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Zhang, Qianggong ^a   Yan, Haiyu ^c   Guo, Junming ^a,e   Jenkins, Matt G ^d   Zhang, Guoshuai ^a,e   Wang, Kang ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Concentration; Mercury; Nam Co Station; Speciation; Tibetan Plateau; Wet deposition flux

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS; HIGH ELEVATION; LAKE SEDIMENTS; METHYLMERCURY; MONSOON SEASON; NAM CO STATION; POLAR REGIONS; PRECIPITATION SAMPLES; REMOTE SITES; SPECIATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOTAL MERCURIES; VOLUME-WEIGHTED MEANS; WET DEPOSITION; WET DEPOSITION FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOACCUMULATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); VOLUME; WET DEPOSITION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; LAKE SEDIMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WET DEPOSITION;

CHINA; NAM CO; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84867790180     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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