Atmospheric mercury speciation and mercury in snow over time at Alert, Canada

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2219-2231

  Steffen, A ^a,b   Bottenheim, J ^a   Cole, A ^a   Ebinghaus, R ^b,c   Lawson, G ^a   Leaitch, W R ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); SNOW; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ALERT; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 84895818076     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-2219-2014     Document Type: Article

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