Elemental mercury concentrations and fluxes in the tropical atmosphere and Ocean

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11312-11319

  Soerensen, Anne L ^a,b   Mason, Robert P ^c   Balcom, Prentiss H ^c   Jacob, Daniel J ^b   Zhang, Yanxu ^b   Kuss, Joachim ^d   Sunderland, Elsie M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SEAWATER TEMPERATURE; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; SEA WATER; AIR POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LATITUDE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION; SALINITY; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY; WIND; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84907930069     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503109p     Document Type: Article

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