ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-12-4327-2012 Estimation of speciated and total mercury dry deposition at monitoring locations in eastern and central North America Zhang L. 1 Blanchard P. 1 Gay D. A. 2 Prestbo E. M. 3 Risch M. R. 4 Johnson D. 5 Narayan J. 1 Zsolway R. 6 Holsen T. M. 7 Miller E. K. 8 Castro M. S. 9 Graydon J. A. 10 Louis V. L. St. 10 Dalziel J. 11 Air Quality Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada Illinois State Water Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA Tekran Instruments Corporation, Toronto, ON, Canada US Geological Survey, Indianapolis, IN, USA Convex Logic, Gloucester, ON, Canada New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, NJ, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA Ecosystems Research Group Ltd, Norwich, VT, USA University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Air Quality Science Section, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada 15 05 2012 12 9 4327 4340 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/4327/2012/acp-12-4327-2012.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/4327/2012/acp-12-4327-2012.pdf

Dry deposition of speciated mercury, i.e., gaseous oxidized mercury (GOM), particulate-bound mercury (PBM), and gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), was estimated for the year 2008–2009 at 19 monitoring locations in eastern and central North America. Dry deposition estimates were obtained by combining monitored two- to four-hourly speciated ambient concentrations with modeled hourly dry deposition velocities (<i>V</i><sub>d</sub>) calculated using forecasted meteorology. Annual dry deposition of GOM+PBM was estimated to be in the range of 0.4 to 8.1 μg m<sup>−2</sup> at these locations with GOM deposition being mostly five to ten times higher than PBM deposition, due to their different modeled <i>V</i><sub>d</sub> values. Net annual GEM dry deposition was estimated to be in the range of 5 to 26 μg m<sup>−2</sup> at 18 sites and 33 μg m<sup>−2</sup> at one site. The estimated dry deposition agrees very well with limited surrogate-surface dry deposition measurements of GOM and PBM, and also agrees with litterfall mercury measurements conducted at multiple locations in eastern and central North America. This study suggests that GEM contributes much more than GOM+PBM to the total dry deposition at the majority of the sites considered here; the only exception is at locations close to significant point sources where GEM and GOM+PBM contribute equally to the total dry deposition. The relative magnitude of the speciated dry deposition and their good comparisons with litterfall deposition suggest that mercury in litterfall originates primarily from GEM, which is consistent with the limited number of previous field studies. The study also supports previous analyses suggesting that total dry deposition of mercury is equal to, if not more important than, wet deposition of mercury on a regional scale in eastern North America.

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