Mercury loads into the sea associated with extreme flood

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 191, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-100

  Saniewska, Dominika ^a   Bełdowska, Magdalena ^a   Bełdowski, Jacek ^b   Jȩdruch, Agnieszka ^a   Saniewski, Michał ^c   Falkowska, Lucyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Institute of Meteorology and Water Management Maritime Branch Gdynia   (Poland)

Author keywords

Baltic; Flood; Mercury; Phytoplankton; Surface sediments; Vistula

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MARINE BIOLOGY; MERCURY (METAL); PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER POLLUTION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

BALTIC; HG CONCENTRATIONS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED MATTERS; VISTULA; WATER TEMPERATURES;

FLOODS;

MERCURY; SEA WATER;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; MARINE POLLUTION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHYTOPLANKTON; POLLUTION EFFECT; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BALTIC COAST [POLAND]; POLAND; VISTULA RIVER;

BALTIC; FLOOD; MERCURY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; VISTULA;

BALTIC STATES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLOODS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MERCURY; OCEANS AND SEAS; POLAND; RIVERS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84899895003     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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