Measurements of atmospheric mercury species at a German rural background site from 2009 to 2011-methods and results

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 102-110

  Weigelt, Andreas ^a   Temme, Christian ^b   Bieber, Elke ^c   Schwerin, Andreas ^c   Schuetze, Maik ^c   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a   Kock, Hans Herbert ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Eurofins Medinet Inc   (Germany)

^c UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ACQUISITION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OXIDATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; RURAL AREA; SEASONALITY;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; WALDHOF;

EID: 84878621072     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN12107     Document Type: Article

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