Atmospheric mercury in a developed region of eastern China: Interannual variation and gas-particle partitioning [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Atmospheric mercury plays a crucial role in the biogeochemical cycle of mercury. This study conducted an intensive measurement of atmospheric mercury from 2015 to 2018 at a regional site in eastern China. During this period, the concentration of particle-
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Continental outflow shapes the circum-Antarctic pattern of summertime atmospheric mercury depletion zones [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAtmospheric mercury depletion events (AMDEs) are a unique phenomenon in polar mercury cycling, involving intense atmospheric mercury oxidation and deposition that amplify marine mercury sinks.
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Atmospheric mercury monitoring data across Italy: A multi-year national dataset (2020 - 2023)ZENODO [PDF]
Data in BriefIn compliance with the European Air Quality Directive, an Italian monitoring network was established under the framework of the “Reti Speciali” agreement.
Mariantonia Bencardino +14 more
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Recent Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry of Mercury
Atmosphere, 2018 Mercury is one of the most toxic metals and has global importance due to the biomagnification and bioaccumulation of organomercury via the aquatic food web.
Lin Si, Parisa A. Ariya
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Photoreduction of gaseous oxidized mercury changes global atmospheric mercury speciation, transport and deposition [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Reduction of gaseous Hg(II) compounds drives atmospheric mercury wet and dry deposition to Earth surface ecosystems. Global Hg models assume this reduction takes place in clouds.
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez +18 more
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Impact of emission reductions and meteorology changes on atmospheric mercury concentrations during the COVID-19 lockdown [PDF]
Science of the Total Environment, 2021 Deming Han, Wang Shuxiao, Jingnan Hu
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Direct observations of atmospheric oxidized mercury speciation in polar areas [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsMercury is a persistent pollutant with significant public health impacts in polar regions where fish consumption drives human exposure. Atmospheric oxidation pathways control where mercury deposits globally, but the lack of molecular-level observations ...
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Atmospheric Modelling of Mercury in the Southern Hemisphere and Future Research Needs: A Review
Atmosphere, 2022 Mercury is a toxic pollutant that can negatively impact the population’s health and the environment. The research on atmospheric mercury is of critical concern because of the diverse process that this pollutant suffers in the atmosphere as well as its ...
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A synthesis of research needs for improving the understanding of atmospheric mercury cycling [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017 This synthesis identifies future research needs in atmospheric mercury science, based on a series of review papers, as well as recent developments in field data collection, modeling analysis, and emission assessments of speciated atmospheric mercury ...
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Source apportionment of atmospheric mercury in the remote marine atmosphere: Mace Head GAW station, Irish western coast [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 We examined recent atmospheric mercury concentrations measured with a high temporal resolution of 15 min at Mace Head, a GAW station on the western coast of Ireland.
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