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Estimation of Atmospheric Mercury Wet-deposition to Lake So-yang

대기 중 수은의 습식 침적 평가: 소양호를 중심으로

  • Ahn, Myung-Chan (Department of Environmental Science, College of Natural Science, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Han, Young-Ji (Department of Environmental Science, College of Natural Science, Kangwon National University)
  • 안명찬 (강원대학교 자연과학대학 환경과학과) ;
  • 한영지 (강원대학교 자연과학대학 환경과학과)
  • Published : 2008.12.31
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Abstract

The important source of the mercury in water-column is the influx of atmosphere mercury, via dry and wet deposition. In this study, wet deposition of mercury was estimated to be $14.56{\mu}g/m^2$ during 15 months at the Lake Soyang, which is a little higher than those observed in the several rural US Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) sites with similar precipitation depth. The mercury concentration in precipitation did not show a positive correlation with atmospheric RGM (reactive gaseous mercury) concentration, while maintaining good correlation with atmospheric $PM_{2.5}$ at Soyang Dam. This result suggests that the contribution of particulate Hg to the total Hg wet deposition should be more significant than that of RGM. In this study, both precipitation depth and precipitation type affected the amount of wet deposition and the concurrent mercury levels in precipitation. There was generally an inverse relationship between precipitation depth and Hg concentration in precipitation. Precipitation type was another factor that exerted controls on the Hg concentration in precipitation. As a result, the highest concentration of Hg was observed in snow, followed by in mixture (snow+rain) and in rain.

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