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Global inventory of natural and anthropogenic emissions of trace metals to the atmosphere

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FEW (if any) recent studies on the atmospheric cycle of trace metals have considered the flux of the metals into the atmosphere on a global scale. Information on worldwide emissions is needed to assess the transboundary movement of pollutant metals and to validate models of the global atmospheric circulation patterns. The worldwide inventories of the natural and anthropogenic sources and emissions of airborne cadmium, copper, lead, nickel and zinc are presented here. The data summarised here are taken from very detailed studies published elsehwere1–5.

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NRIAGU, J. Global inventory of natural and anthropogenic emissions of trace metals to the atmosphere. Nature 279, 409–411 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/279409a0

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