Dataset: Chemical parameters measured on fog water samples from land and ocean locations on California coast from May 2014 to August 2017.

Preliminary and in progressVersion 1 (2018-02-02)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Peter Weiss-Penzias (University of California-Santa Cruz)

Co-Principal Investigator: Kenneth Coale (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)

Co-Principal Investigator: Daniel Fernandez (California State University Monterey Bay)

Co-Principal Investigator: Wesley Heim (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Megan Switzer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Collaborative Research: Investigations on the Cycling of Mercury from the Ocean to Fog and Deposition to Land in Coastal California (Mercury in Fog)

Cite Dataset

Complete methodology, sampling, and analytical procedures are explained in Weiss-Penzias P. S., Coale K., Heim W., Fernandez D., Oliphant A., Dodge C., Hoskins D., Farlin J., Moranville R. and Olson A. (2016) Total- and monomethyl-mercury and major ions in coastal California fog water: Results from two years of sampling on land and at sea. Elementa 4, 000101. doi: 10.12952/journal.elementa.000101

Other relevant publications:

Coale, K.H., Heim, W.A., Negrey, J., Weiss-Penzias, P., Fernandez, D., Olson, A., Chiswell, H., Byington, A., Bonnema, A., Martenuk, S., Newman, A., Beebe, C. and Till, C. (in review). The distribution and speciation of mercury in the California Current: Implications for mercury transport via fog to land. Deep Sea Research II.

M. Fernandez, Daniel & Torregrosa, Alicia & S. Weiss-Penzias, Peter & June Zhang, Bong & Sorensen, Deckard & E. Cohen, Robert & Mckinley, Gareth & Kleingartner, Justin & Oliphant, Andrew & Bowman, Matthew. (2017). Fog Water Collection Effectiveness: Mesh Intercomparisons. Aerosol and Air Quality Research: 18. doi: 10.4209/aaqr.2017.01.0040. 

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Weiss-Penzias, P., Heim, W., Fernandez, D., Coale, K. (2018) Chemical parameters measured on fog water samples from land and ocean locations on California coast from May 2014 to August 2017.. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2018-02-02 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/726198 [access date]

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