Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic atmospheric mercury: Sources and changes

A Dastoor, SJ Wilson, O Travnikov, A Ryjkov… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global anthropogenic and legacy mercury (Hg) emissions are the main sources of Arctic Hg
contamination, primarily transported there via the atmosphere. This review summarizes the …

The OpenMolcas Web: A Community-Driven Approach to Advancing Computational Chemistry

G Li Manni, I Fdez. Galván, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The developments of the open-source OpenMolcas chemistry software environment since
spring 2020 are described, with a focus on novel functionalities accessible in the stable …

An updated global mercury budget from a coupled atmosphere-land-ocean model: 40% more re-emissions buffer the effect of primary emission reductions

Y Zhang, P Zhang, Z Song, S Huang, T Yuan, P Wu… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
The effectiveness of reducing the environmental level of mercury (Hg) by controlling
anthropogenic emissions depends on the magnitude of re-emissions from the land and …

Mass-independent fractionation of even and odd mercury isotopes during atmospheric mercury redox reactions

X Fu, M Jiskra, X Yang, N Marusczak… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mass-independent fractionation (MIF) of stable even mass number mercury (Hg) isotopes is
observed in rainfall and gaseous elemental Hg0 globally and is used to quantify …

Pollution-Derived Br2 Boosts Oxidation Power of the Coastal Atmosphere

M Xia, T Wang, Z Wang, Y Chen, X Peng… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The bromine atom (Br•) has been known to destroy ozone (O3) and accelerate the
deposition of toxic mercury (Hg). However, its abundance and sources outside the polar …

A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes

L Schneider, JA Fisher, MC Diéguez, AH Fostier… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Recent studies demonstrate a short 3–6-month atmospheric lifetime for mercury (Hg). This
implies Hg emissions are predominantly deposited within the same hemisphere in which …

A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 2: Anthropogenic perturbations

JA Fisher, L Schneider, AH Fostier, S Guerrero… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Environmental mercury (Hg) contamination is a global concern requiring action at national
scales. Scientific understanding and regulatory policies are underpinned by global …

Improved mechanistic model of the atmospheric redox chemistry of mercury

V Shah, DJ Jacob, CP Thackray, X Wang… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present a new chemical mechanism for Hg0/HgI/HgII atmospheric cycling, including
recent laboratory and computational data, and implement it in the GEOS-Chem global …

Sources and transformation mechanisms of atmospheric particulate bound mercury revealed by mercury stable isotopes

C Liu, X Fu, Y Xu, H Zhang, X Wu… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This study examined the isotopic composition of particulate bound mercury (PBM) in 10
Chinese megacities and explored the associated sources and transformation mechanisms …