Legacy impacts of all-time anthropogenic emissions on the global mercury cycle

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 410-421

  Amos, Helen M ^a   Jacob, Daniel J ^a,b   Streets, David G ^c   Sunderland, Elsie M ^b,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropogenic enrichment; future emissions; global biogeochemical model; legacy mercury; mercury; timescales

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; EMISSION CONTROL; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC ORIGIN; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; GLOBAL HG EMISSIONS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TIME-SCALES; TOXIC METHYLMERCURY;

MERCURY (METAL);

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLMERCURY;

ASIA;

EID: 84877263175     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gbc.20040     Document Type: Article

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