John Munthe

TL;DR: A regional-scale application to southern Sweden suggests that the response of environmental Hg levels to changes in atmospheric Hg pollution is delayed by centuries and initially not proportional among receptors, which has implications for the interpretation of common survey data as well as for the implementation of pollution control strategies.

TL;DR: A global assessment of societal damages caused by the ingestion of methyl mercury, based merely on loss of IQ (Intelligence Quotient), suggests that the annual cost will be approximately US$3.7 billion (2005 dollars) in 2020.

TL;DR: In this article, five mercury chemistry models are compared using the same data set for model initialisation, including gas phase oxidation, fast reduction-oxidation aqueous reactions between Hg(0) and Hg (II), and adsorption of Hg-II species to soot particles within droplets.

TL;DR: The mercury species over Europe (MOE) project was aimed at identifying sources, occurrence and atmospheric behaviour of atmospheric Hg species in Northern Europe as discussed by the authors, and the results emphasise the importance of information on Hg Species for instance in emission inventories and measurement data from background sites.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Eulerian transport model HMET has been modified and extended to also include mercury species, and a scheme for chemical conversion of elemental mercury to other species of mercury and deposition characteristics of different mercury species have been included in the model.