Source apportionment of atmospheric mercury pollution in China using the GEOS-Chem model

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 190, Issue , 2014, Pages 166-175

  Wang, Long ^a   Wang, Shuxiao ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^a   Wang, Yuxuan ^a,c   Zhang, Yanxu ^d   Nielsen, Chris ^d   McElroy, Michael B ^d   Hao, Jiming ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION KEY LABORATORY OF SOURCES AND CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION COMPLEX   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Control policy; Industrial sources; Mercury pollution; Nested grid GEOS Chem

Indexed keywords

CEMENT PLANTS; DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MERCURY (METAL); NONFERROUS METALS; POLLUTION CONTROL; POWER PLANTS; WATER ANALYSIS;

CHINA; CONTROL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; MERCURY POLLUTION; NESTED-GRID GEOS-CHEM;

RIVER POLLUTION;

MERCURY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POWER PLANT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMELTING;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CEMENT INDUSTRY; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOS CHEM MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SMELTER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHINA;

CHINA; CONTROL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL SOURCES; MERCURY POLLUTION; NESTED-GRID GEOS-CHEM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POWER PLANTS; RIVERS;

EID: 84899459027     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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