Modeling Atmospheric Mercury Deposition to the Great Lakes: Updated Analysis

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• Personal Author:
  Cohen, Mark D.
• Corporate Authors:
  Air Resources Laboratory (U.S.)
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; ARL (Air Resources Laboratory)
• Description:
  Mercury contamination is an ongoing concern in the Great Lakes region, with public health and wildlife toxicology ramifications (Bhavsar et al., 2010; Cohen et al., 2007; Evers et al., 2011; Gandhi et al., 2014; Wiener et al., 2012), and atmospheric deposition is likely the largest contemporary loading pathway (Jeremiason et al., 2009; Mason and Sullivan, 1997; Rolfhus et al., 2003; Sullivan and Mason, 1998). The HYSPLIT‐Hg atmospheric fate and transport model has been previously used to estimate the amount and source‐attribution of mercury to the Great Lakes and their watersheds (Great Lakes Basin) for 1996 (Cohen et al., 2004) and 1999 (Cohen et al., 2007) arising from anthropogenic sources in the United States and Canada. In this analysis, we use an extended version of the model to estimate 2005 deposition arising from global anthropogenic and natural sources.
• Keywords:
  Air Atmospheric Deposition Effect Of Human Beings On Mercury Nature Pollution Water Atmospheric Deposition Effect Of Human Beings On
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Non-series Report
• Place as Subject:
  Great Lakes (North America)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b5f6c8122e5697ee18d6add1d986f694546e3596f4bcf714599d9b2f19629a962bad4bb36647c3296cd23072d7a5df9c4ac72e6a5b1bb7ae3b16c1828736eeb2
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