Atmospheric mercury in the Canadian Arctic. Part II: Insight from modeling

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 509-510, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-27

  Dastoor, Ashu ^a   Ryzhkov, Andrew ^a   Durnford, Dorothy ^a   Lehnherr, Igor ^b   Steffen, Alexandra ^a   Morrison, Heather ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Concentration; Deposition; Mercury; Model; Source attribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITION; EMISSION CONTROL; METEOROLOGY; MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA ICE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC MERCURY; EMISSION CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; SOURCE ATTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; AIR POLLUTANT;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); NUMERICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARCTIC; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CANADA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRY DEPOSITION; LAND USE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; WET DEPOSITION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; LITTLE FOX LAKE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; YUKON TERRITORY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MERCURY; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84922288255     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.10.112     Document Type: Review

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