Kuo Tien-Ho, Chang Cheng-Fen, Urba Andrius, Kvietkus Kestutis
Tung-Nan Institute of Technology, 152 Sec. 3 Peisheng Rd., ShenKeng, Taipei 222, Taiwan.
Sci Total Environ. 2006 Sep 1;368(1):10-8. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.10.017. Epub 2005 Dec 13.
The first attempt to systematically investigate the atmospheric mercury over the territory of Taiwan has been undertaken. Four sampling sites were selected in localities qualified as urban, suburban, industrial-rural and rural ones, within the northern part of Taiwan. The sites were monitored for atmospheric gaseous mercury alternately from September to December 2003 and from April to June 2004, by using a portable automated mercury analyzer Model Gardis-3. The results have shown rather high atmospheric gaseous mercury levels (up to 30 ng/m3 at the urban site, up to 22 ng/m3 at the rural site, up to 24 ng/m3 at the industrial-rural site, and up to 90 ng/m3 at the suburban site) which may indicate the presence of considerably strong point and area mercury sources whose origin still has to be detected more precisely.
首次对台湾地区的大气汞进行系统调查的工作已经展开。在台湾北部选定了四个采样点，分别位于城市、郊区、工业农村和农村地区。2003年9月至12月以及2004年4月至6月期间，使用便携式自动汞分析仪Gardis-3对这些采样点的大气气态汞进行了交替监测。结果显示，大气气态汞水平相当高（城市采样点高达30纳克/立方米，农村采样点高达22纳克/立方米，工业农村采样点高达24纳克/立方米，郊区采样点高达90纳克/立方米），这可能表明存在相当强大的点源和区域汞源，其来源仍需更精确地查明。
