Investigating sources of gaseous oxidized mercury in dry deposition at three sites across Florida, USA

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 9201-9219

  Sexauer Gustin, M ^a   Weiss Penzias, P S ^b   Peterson, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRY DEPOSITION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; POINT SOURCE; WET DEPOSITION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FORT LAUDERDALE; PENSACOLA; TAMPA BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869068141     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-9201-2012     Document Type: Article

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