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Mid-latitude mercury loss

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Bromine facilitates the oxidation of elemental mercury in the lower atmosphere in polar and subpolar regions. Measurements over the Dead Sea suggest that bromine also generates large quantities of oxidized mercury in the mid-latitudes.

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Figure 1: Simplified schematic of mercury cycling over the ocean.

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  1. Parisa A. Ariya is in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6. parisa.ariya@mcgill.ca,

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