Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere: Emissions, Measurements and Models

Global Mercury Emissions to the Atmosphere from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources.- Mercury emissions from coal combustion in China.- Mercury emissions from industrial sources in China.- Mercury emissions from industrial sources in India and its effects in the environment.- Mercury emissions from point sources in South Africa.- World emissions of mercury from artisanal and small scale gold mining.- Mercury emissions from natural processes and their importance in the global mercury cycle.- Mercury emissions from global biomass burning: spatialand temporal distribution.- Spatial coverage and temporal trends of land-based atmospheric mercury measurements in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.- Spatial coverage and temporal trends of atmospheric mercury measurements in Polar Regions.- Spatial coverage and temporal trends of over-water, air-surface exchange, surface and deep sea water mercury measurements.- Monitoring and modeling projects for fate of Hg species in Japan.- The need for a coordinated global Hg monitoring network for global and regional models validation.- Our current understanding of major chemical and physical processes affecting mercury dynamics in the atmosphere and at the air-water/terrestrial interfaces.- Mercury chemical transformations in the gas, aqueous and heterogeneous phases: state-of-the-art science and uncertainties.- Importance of a global scale approach to using regional models in the assessment of source-receptor relationships for mercury.- Global mercury modelling at Environment Canada.- The Geos-Chem model.- The ECHMERT model.- The EMEP/MSC-E mercury modeling system.- The AER/EPRI global chemical transport model for mercury (CTM-HG).