Seasonal and spatial evasion of mercury from the western Mediterranean Sea

• Continuous measurements of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) in air and dissolved gaseous mercury (DGM) in surface seawater were performed during two oceanographic campaigns (Fenice 2011 (25/10-11/11) and Fenice 2012 (11-29/8)), carried out in the Tyrrhenian Sea (Fenice 211), western Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean (Fenice 2012) as part of the GMOS project (Global Mercury Observation System). Measured GEM and DGM were used to estimate the air-sea exchange of elemental mercury by using a two-thin film gas exchange model. Measured GEM concentrations showed significantly higher values in fall (1.7 +/- 0.4 ng m(-3)) compared to summer (1.5 +/- 03 ng m(-3), p

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Elemental Mercury

Gas exchange model

Air

Temporal Trends

GEM

Gas-Exchange

Chloralkali Plant

Dissolved Gaseous Mercury

Natural-Waters

DGM

Mediterranean Sea

Exchange

Seawater

Wind-Speed

Mercury flux

Atmospheric Mercury

Seasonal variation

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