Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere highlights major issues related to the interactions of mercury with terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and evaluates the relative contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to the global atmospheric mercury budget. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on different aspects related to mercury emissions from natural and anthropogenic sources, the evaluation of mercury concentrations and fluxes in different regions of the world, and global atmospheric mercury models currently used to assess spatial distributions of mercury compounds in ambient air and source-receptor relationships. The preparation of this book has been made possible thanks to the contributions of all members of the United Nations Environment Programme Global Partnership for Mercury Air Transport and Fate Research (UNEP-MFTP), and of more than 70 scientists from leading universities and research institutions recognized as worldwide experts on different aspects related to emissions, monitoring and modeling mercury in the atmosphere and other environmental compartments. Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere is intended to provide a scientific support to nations and the UNEP Governing Council that have been asked to shape the most efficient and economic concerted actions to reduce the impact of mercury contamination on human health and the environment.
Author(s): Nicola Pirrone, Sergio Cinnirella (auth.), Robert Mason, Nicola Pirrone (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 637
Tags: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Ecotoxicology; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution
Front Matter....Pages 1-14
Global Mercury Emissions to the Atmosphere from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources....Pages 1-47
Mercury emissions from coal combustion in China....Pages 51-65
Mercury emissions from industrial sources in China....Pages 67-79
Mercury emissions from industrial sources in India and its effects in the environment....Pages 81-112
Mercury emissions from point sources in South Africa....Pages 113-130
World emissions of mercury from artisanal and small scale gold mining....Pages 131-172
Mercury emissions from natural processes and their importance in the global mercury cycle....Pages 173-191
Mercury emissions from global biomass burning: spatialand temporal distribution....Pages 193-220
Spatial coverage and temporal trends of land-based atmospheric mercury measurements in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres....Pages 223-291
Spatial coverage and temporal trends of atmospheric mercury measurements in Polar Regions....Pages 293-321
Spatial coverage and temporal trends of over-water, air-surface exchange, surface and deep sea water mercury measurements....Pages 323-380
Monitoring and modeling projects for fate of Hg species in Japan....Pages 381-390
The need for a coordinated global Hg monitoring network for global and regional models validation....Pages 391-424
Our current understanding of major chemical and physical processes affecting mercury dynamics in the atmosphere and at the air-water/terrestrial interfaces....Pages 427-457
Mercury chemical transformations in the gas, aqueous and heterogeneous phases: state-of-the-art science and uncertainties....Pages 459-501
Importance of a global scale approach to using regional models in the assessment of source-receptor relationships for mercury....Pages 503-517
Global mercury modelling at Environment Canada....Pages 519-532
The Geos-Chem model....Pages 533-545
The ECHMERT model....Pages 547-569
The EMEP/MSC-E mercury modeling system....Pages 571-587
The AER/EPRI global chemical transport model for mercury (CTM-HG)....Pages 589-602
Back Matter....Pages 1-35
