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Concentration of atmospheric mercury: 2012 Arctic and Northwestern Pacific Oceans
Measuring atmospheric Hg in the marine boundary layer Mercury (Hg) is a toxic pollutant. Its bioaccumulation causes serious health problem. In the atmosphere, mercury typically exists in gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), reactive gaseous species (RGM) and particulate bounded mercury (PBM). Since more than 95% of mercury exists in GEM, significant amount of Hg is transported long-range. In spite of the importance of mercury in the atmosphere, the role of ocean in the global budget of Hg has not been clearly studied yet and its measurement over the marine boundary layer will enhance the OH-related chemistry.
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- Entry ID
- KOPRI-KPDC-00000288
- KPDC_CAM_ARCTIC_2012 (Old ID)
- Copyright
- ISO Topic
- CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
- Platforms
- ARAON (Icebreaker Research Vessel, KOPRI)
- Instruments
- Hg analyzer(Tekran 2537B mercury species analyzer)
- Personnel
- Tae Siek Rhee (rhee@kopri.re.kr)
- Research period
- 2012-07-13 ~ 2012-09-24
- Create/Update Date
- 2013-01-30 / 2013-01-30
- Location
- Continent > North America > United States Of America > Alaska
- Dataset
- Concentration of atmospheric mercury: 2012 Arctic and Northwestern Pacific Oceans Impact of the ocean-atmosphere interactions in the polar and low-latitude oceans to the climate change Tae Siek Rhee
- Citation
- The data(KOPRI-KPDC-00000288) used in this work was provided by the Korea Polar Research Institute.