Mercury as a global pollutant: sources, pathways, and effects

CT Driscoll, RP Mason, HM Chan… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant that affects human and ecosystem health. We synthesize
understanding of sources, atmosphere-land-ocean Hg dynamics and health effects, and …

Observations of atmospheric mercury in China: a critical review

XW Fu, H Zhang, B Yu, X Wang, CJ Lin… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
China presently contributes the largest amount of anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emission into
the atmosphere in the world. Over the past decade, numerous studies have been conducted …

A review of worldwide atmospheric mercury measurements

F Sprovieri, N Pirrone, R Ebinghaus… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
A large number of activities have been carried out to characterise the levels of mercury (Hg)
species in ambient air and precipitation, in order to understand how they vary over time and …

Atmospheric mercury concentrations observed at ground-based monitoring sites globally distributed in the framework of the GMOS network

F Sprovieri, N Pirrone, M Bencardino… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Long-term monitoring of data of ambient mercury (Hg) on a global scale to assess its
emission, transport, atmospheric chemistry, and deposition processes is vital to …

Microbial mercury methylation in Antarctic sea ice

CM Gionfriddo, MT Tate, RR Wick, MB Schultz… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Atmospheric deposition of mercury onto sea ice and circumpolar sea water provides
mercury for microbial methylation, and contributes to the bioaccumulation of the potent …

Mercury in the southern ocean

D Cossa, LE Heimbürger, D Lannuzel… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
We present here the first mercury speciation study in the water column of the Southern
Ocean, using a high-resolution south-to-north section (27 stations from 65.50° S to 44.00° S) …

[HTML][HTML] Updated trends for atmospheric mercury in the Arctic: 1995–2018

K MacSween, G Stupple, W Aas, K Kyllönen… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Arctic region forms a unique environment with specific physical, chemical, and
biological processes affecting mercury (Hg) cycles and limited anthropogenic Hg sources …

Modeling the mercury cycle in the sea ice environment: a buffer between the polar atmosphere and ocean

S Huang, F Wang, T Yuan, Z Song, P Wu… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sea ice (including overlying snow) is a dynamic interface between the atmosphere and the
ocean, influencing the mercury (Hg) cycling in polar oceans. However, a large-scale and …

Mercury biomagnification in an Antarctic food web of the Antarctic Peninsula

RS Matias, HR Guímaro, P Bustamante, J Seco… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Under the climate change context, warming Southern Ocean waters may allow mercury (Hg)
to become more bioavailable to the Antarctic marine food web (ie, ice-stored Hg release and …

Seasonal variation of mercury and its isotopes in atmospheric particles at the coastal Zhongshan Station, Eastern Antarctica

C Li, J Chen, H Angot, W Zheng, G Shi… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Mercury (Hg) is a globally spread trace metal due to its long atmospheric residence time.
Yet, our understanding of atmospheric processes (eg, redox reactions and deposition) …