Airborne vertical profiling of mercury speciation near Tullahoma, TN, USA

Atmosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 557-574

  Brooks, Steve ^a,b   Ren, Xinrong ^a,c,d   Cohen, Mark ^a   Luke, Winston T ^a   Kelley, Paul ^a,c   Artz, Richard ^a   Hynes, Anthony ^e   Landing, William ^d   Martos, Borja ^b  

^a Center for Satellite Applications and Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne measurements; Atmospheric mercury; Gaseous elemental mercury; Gaseous oxidized mercury; HYSPLIT; Particulate bound mercury; Vertical profile

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; OXIDATION; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; GASEOUS ELEMENTAL MERCURY; GASEOUS OXIDIZED MERCURIES; HYSPLIT; VERTICAL PROFILE;

MERCURY (METAL);

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MERCURY (ELEMENT); SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

TENNESSEE; TULLAHOMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906086911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos5030557     Document Type: Article

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