Spatial coverage and temporal trends of land-based atmospheric mercury measurements in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere: Emissions, Measurements and Models

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-291

  Ebinghaus, Ralf ^a   Banic, Catharine ^b   Beauchamp, Steve ^b   Jaffe, Dan ^c   Kock, Hans Herbert ^a   Pirrone, Nicola ^d   Poissant, Laurier ^b   Sprovieri, Francesca ^d   Weiss Penzias, Peter S ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-93958-2_9     Document Type: Chapter

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