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Spatial and temporal variations of total mercury in Antarctic snow along the transect from Zhongshan Station to Dome A Cover

Spatial and temporal variations of total mercury in Antarctic snow along the transect from Zhongshan Station to Dome A

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 66 (2014): Issue 1
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|Jan 2014
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v66.25152 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 25152 - 25152
Submitted on: Jun 10, 2014
Accepted on: Oct 27, 2014
Published on: Jan 1, 2014
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
total mercury,
spatio-temporal variation,
Dome A,
eastern Antarctica

© 2014 Chuanjin Li, Shichang Kang, Guitao Shi, Jie Huang, Minghu Ding, Qianggong Zhang, Lulu Zhang, Junming Guo, Cunde Xiao, Shugui Hou, Bo Sun, Dahe Qin, Jiawen Ren, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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