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The Atmospheric Cycling Of Mercury And Persistent Organic Pollutants: An Introduction To A New EUROTRAC Subproject

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

36

Pages

9

Published

1999

Size

885 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/EURO990642

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

John Munthe, Eva Brorstrom-Lunden, Jan Duyzer, Jozef Pacyna, Gerhard Peterson and Addo van

Abstract

The Atmospheric Cycling of Mercury and Persistent Organic Pollutants: An introduction to a new EUROTRAC subproject Invited contribution from the coordinator of subproject MEPOP John Munthe*, Eva Brorstrom-Lunden\ Jan Duyzer*, Jozef Pacyna**, Gerhard Peterson* and Addo van 'Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL), P.O. Box 47086, S-402 58 Goteborg, Sweden *TNOMEP, Laan van Westenenk 501 P.O. Box 342, 7300 AH Apeldoorn The Netherlands ^Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), P.O. Box 100, N-2007 Kjeller, Norway *GKSS Research Centre, Institute ofHydrophysics, Max-Planck-Strasse, D-2I502 Geestacht, Germany *RIVM, Laboratory for Air Research, P.O. Box I, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands Introduction Mercury (Hg) and Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are pollutants of increasing importance for the environmental quality in Europ

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