Tempospatial variation and partition of atmospheric mercury during wet and dry seasons at sensitivity sites within a heavily polluted industrial city

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-23

  Jen, Yi Hsiu ^a   Yuan, Chung Shin ^a   Hung, Chung Hsuang ^b   Ie, Iau Ren ^a   Tsai, Cheng Mou ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric mercury; Correlation coefficients; Gas particle partition; Industrial city; Sampling and analysis; Tempospatial variation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GAS-PARTICLE PARTITIONS; INDUSTRIAL CITY; TEMPOSPATIAL VARIATION;

DROUGHT; INDUSTRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE;

MERCURY (METAL);

AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CORRELATION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

KAOHSIUNG; TAIWAN;

EID: 84872954698     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.05.0129     Document Type: Article

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