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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15825-2018
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15825-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Understanding mercury oxidation and air–snow exchange on the East Antarctic Plateau: a modeling study
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
now at: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Hélène Angot
Institute for Data, Systems and Society, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Noelle E. Selin
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Institute for Data, Systems and Society, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Hubert Gallée
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Institut des
Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE), Grenoble, France
Francesca Sprovieri
CNR-Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rende,
Italy
Nicola Pirrone
CNR-Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Montelibretti, Rome,
Italy
Detlev Helmig
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Joël Savarino
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Institut des
Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE), Grenoble, France
Olivier Magand
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Institut des
Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE), Grenoble, France
Aurélien Dommergue
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, Institut des
Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE), Grenoble, France
Data sets
Land-based Monitoring Sites Global Mercury Observation System (GMOS) http://sdi.iia.cnr.it/geoint/publicpage/GMOS/gmos_historical.zul
Short summary
Mercury is a trace metal with adverse health effects on human and wildlife. Its unique property makes it undergo long-range transport, and even remote Antarctica receives significant inputs. This paper presents the first model that aims to understand mercury behavior over the Antarctic Plateau. We find that mercury is quickly cycled between snow and air in the sunlit period, likely driven by bromine chemistry, and that several uncertain processes contribute to its behavior in the dark period.
Mercury is a trace metal with adverse health effects on human and wildlife. Its unique property...
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