Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere Emissions, Measurements and Models - Pirrone, Nicola; Mason, Robert; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Global Mercury Emissions to the Atmosphere from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources -- Mercury emissions from coal combustion in China -- Mercury emissions from industrial sources in China -- Mercury emissions from industrial sources in India and its effects in the environment -- Mercury emissions from point sources in South Africa -- World emissions of mercury from artisanal and small scale gold mining -- Mercury emissions from natural processes and their importance in the global mercury cycle -- Mercury emissions from global biomass burning: spatialand temporal distribution -- Spatial coverage and temporal trends of land-based atmospheric mercury measurements in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres -- Spatial coverage and temporal trends of atmospheric mercury measurements in Polar Regions -- Spatial coverage and temporal trends of over-water, air-surface exchange, surface and deep sea water mercury measurements -- Monitoring and modeling projects for fate of Hg species in Japan -- The need for a coordinated global Hg monitoring network for global and regional models validation -- Our current understanding of major chemical and physical processes affecting mercury dynamics in the atmosphere and at the air-water/terrestrial interfaces -- Mercury chemical transformations in the gas, aqueous and heterogeneous phases: state-of-the-art science and uncertainties -- Importance of a global scale approach to using regional models in the assessment of source-receptor relationships for mercury -- Global mercury modelling at Environment Canada -- The Geos-Chem model -- The ECHMERT model -- The EMEP/MSC-E mercury modeling system -- The AER/EPRI global chemical transport model for mercury (CTM-HG).
Keywords: Pollution; Air pollution; Ecotoxicology; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Pollution, general; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Ecotoxicology; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.