Characterizations of wet mercury deposition on a remote high-elevation site in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 206, Issue , 2015, Pages 518-526

  Huang, Jie ^a,d   Kang, Shichang ^b,c   Zhang, Qianggong ^a,c   Guo, Junming ^a,e   Sillanpää, Mika ^d   Wang, Yongjie ^a   Sun, Shiwei ^b,e   Sun, Xuejun ^a,e   Tripathee, Lekhendra ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Long term variation; Mercury speciation; Southeastern Tibetan Plateau; Wet deposition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; MERCURY (METAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LONG-TERM VARIATION; MERCURY DEPOSITIONS; MERCURY SPECIATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; VOLUME-WEIGHTED MEANS; WET DEPOSITION;

DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTANT; GAS; MERCURY; RAIN;

AIR POLLUTANT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS; ASIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS; PROCEDURES; SEASON; TIBET;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALTITUDE; ASIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GASES; MERCURY; RAIN; SEASONS; TIBET;

EID: 84939804106     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.07.024     Document Type: Article

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