Toward the next generation of air quality monitoring: Mercury

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 80, Issue , 2013, Pages 599-611

  Pirrone, Nicola ^a   Aas, Wenche ^b   Cinnirella, Sergio ^c   Ebinghaus, Ralf ^d   Hedgecock, Ian M ^c   Pacyna, Jozef ^b,e   Sprovieri, Francesca ^c   Sunderland, Elsie M ^f  

^a CNR Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research   (Italy)

^b Norwegian Institute of Air Pollution   (Norway)

^c Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; Global monitoring; Mercury; New technologies

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING; ATMOSPHERIC RESIDENCE TIME; DATA COLLECTION NETWORKS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENT; GLOBAL MONITORING;

AIR QUALITY; ALKYLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OXIDATION; POLLUTION; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; OXIDIZING AGENT; SEA WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AIR QUALITY; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAMMAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METHYLMERCURY; POLLUTION MONITORING; TIMESCALE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BIOMASS; BIOSPHERE; BIOTA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FISH; FOOD WEB; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METEOROLOGY; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER POLLUTION; WET DEPOSITION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84885173914     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.06.053     Document Type: Article

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