Bimodal variation in mercury wet deposition
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Bimodal variation in mercury wet deposition to the coastal zone of the southern Baltic P. Siudek, L. Falkowska, and A. Urba Departament of Marine Chemistry and Environmental Protection, Institute of Oceanography, Gdansk University, Marszalka Pilsudskiego 46, 81378 Gdynia, Poland Ecological Spectroscopy Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Gostatuto 12, Vilnius 2600, Lithuania Received: 29 September 2009 – Accepted: 1 October 2009 – Published: 27 October 2009 Correspondence to: P. Siudek ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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