The cycling and sea-air exchange of mercury in the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean during the 2010 MED-OCEANOR cruise campaign

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 448, Issue , 2013, Pages 151-162

  Fantozzi, L ^a   Manca, G ^a,b   Ammoscato, I ^a   Pirrone, N ^a   Sprovieri, F ^a  

^a Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dissolved gaseous mercury; Filtered total mercury; Gaseous elemental mercury; Mercury evasional flux; Unfiltered total mercury

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; DISSOLVED GASEOUS MERCURY; ELEMENTAL MERCURY FLUXES; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PHOTOINDUCED TRANSFORMATION; TOTAL MERCURIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SUN;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; SEA WATER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); SEA SURFACE; SEAWATER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEASHORE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUNLIGHT; WEATHER;

AIR; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MERCURY; PHASE TRANSITION; SEAWATER;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; SICILY; SPAIN;

URANIA;

EID: 84875245783     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.09.062     Document Type: Article

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