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Research article
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25 May 2018
Research article |
| 25 May 2018
| 25 May 2018
How important is biomass burning in Canada to mercury contamination?
Annemarie Fraser
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate
Change Canada, 335 River Road, Ottawa, Canada
Ashu Dastoor
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
2121 Trans-Canada Highway, Dorval, Québec, Canada
Andrei Ryjkov
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada,
2121 Trans-Canada Highway, Dorval, Québec, Canada
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This paper quantifies the emissions of mercury from biomass burning in Canada. Using an emissions inventory of mercury in the GEM-MACH-Hg model, surface observations of mercury concentration, and a top-down inversion method, we generate optimized emissions of mercury. We find that biomass burning is an important source of mercury emissions and deposition in Canada. Significant uncertainty remains, due to uncertainty in the speciation of emitted mercury.
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