Wet deposition of mercury at Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 447, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-132

  Huang, Jie ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Wang, Shuxiao ^c   Wang, Long ^c   Zhang, Qianggong ^a   Guo, Junming ^a,e   Wang, Kang ^d   Zhang, Guoshuai ^a,e   Tripathee, Lekhendra ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Tsinghua University ^*  (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Deposition; GEOS Chem model; Lhasa; Mercury; Precipitation; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; BELOW-CLOUD; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; DEPOSITION FLUXES; LHASA; MONSOON SEASON; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRECIPITATION SAMPLES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VOLUME-WEIGHTED MEANS; WET AND DRY; WET DEPOSITION; WET DEPOSITION FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DEPOSITION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRY DEPOSITION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); WET DEPOSITION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; WET DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; MERCURY; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEASONS; TIBET;

CHINA; LHASA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84873242686     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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