How well do environmental archives of atmospheric mercury deposition in the Arctic reproduce rates and trends depicted by atmospheric models and measurements?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 452-453, Issue , 2013, Pages 196-207

  Goodsite, M E ^a   Outridge, P M ^a,b   Christensen, J H ^a   Dastoor, A ^c   Muir, D ^c   Travnikov, O ^d   Wilson, S ^e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d Meteorological Synthesizing Centre East of EMEP   (Russian Federation)

^e Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Secretariat   (Norway)

Author keywords

Environmental archives; Ice; Mercury; Mercury deposition models; Peat; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION FLUXES; ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHIVES; GLOBAL HG EMISSIONS; MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; REAL-TIME INSTRUMENT; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CATCHMENTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; INSTRUMENTS; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PEAT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WETLANDS;

DEPOSITION;

MERCURY; AIR POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIAGENESIS; EMISSION INVENTORY; FIRN; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PEAT; PEATLAND; SNOWPACK; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CANADA; GLACIER; GREENLAND; LAKE SEDIMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PEATLAND; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; TREND STUDY; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GREENLAND; MERCURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUNAVUT;

EID: 84875236442     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.02.052     Document Type: Review

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