Contribution of contaminated sites to the global mercury budget

Environmental Research

Volumn 125, Issue , 2013, Pages 160-170

  Kocman, David ^a   Horvat, Milena ^a   Pirrone, Nicola ^b   Cinnirella, Sergio ^c  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research   (Italy)

^c Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contaminated site; Emission; Global; Mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTAMINATED LAND; DATABASE; EMISSION INVENTORY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROSPHERE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METALS INDUSTRY; MINE; MINING; MITIGATION; PRECIOUS METAL; REMEDIATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BUDGET; CONTAMINATION; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT; HYDROSPHERE; MINING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONTAMINATED SITE; EMISSION; GLOBAL; MERCURY;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; GEOGRAPHY; MERCURY; MINING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WASTE PRODUCTS; WATER CYCLE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84881543190     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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