Trend and seasonal variation of atmospheric mercury concentrations at the Cape Point GAW observatory, South Africa

• Published in: E3S Web of Conferences
• Main Authors: Brunke E.-G., Ebinghaus R., Kock H. H., Weigelt A., Labuschagne C., Slemr F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: EDP Sciences 2013
• Subjects: Heavy metals; mercury; emission; deposition; flux; terrestrial surface; geo; envir; Troll; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20130117002; https://doaj.org/article/8b34370735664d24936457f67b931967

Gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) has been measured at the WMO Global Atmospheric Watch station at Cape Point, South Africa since September 1995. Two techniques were used: a low resolution manual technique till the end of 2004 and a high resolution automated technique since March 2007. The GEM measure...