Articles | Volume 18, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-2747-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-2747-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model experiment description paper
| 
16 May 2025
Model experiment description paper |
| 16 May 2025
| 16 May 2025
The Multi-Compartment Hg Modeling and Analysis Project (MCHgMAP): mercury modeling to support international environmental policy
Ashu Dastoor
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Quebec, Canada
Hélène Angot
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, Grenoble, France
Johannes Bieser
Institute of Coastal Systems – Analysis and Modeling, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany
Flora Brocza
Energy, Climate and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Brock Edwards
Centre for Earth Observation Science, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Aryeh Feinberg
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Xinbin Feng
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Benjamin Geyman
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA
Charikleia Gournia
Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Yipeng He
Applied Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Ian M. Hedgecock
CNR-Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rende, Italy
Ilia Ilyin
Ecological Synthesizing Centre – East, Moscow, Russia
Jane Kirk
Aquatic Contaminants Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Che-Jen Lin
Center for Advances in Water and Air Quality, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, USA
Igor Lehnherr
Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Robert Mason
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, USA
David McLagan
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Marilena Muntean
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, VA, Italy
Peter Rafaj
Energy, Climate and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Eric M. Roy
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Andrei Ryjkov
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Quebec, Canada
Noelle E. Selin
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Francesco De Simone
CNR-Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Rende, Italy
Anne L. Soerensen
Department of Environmental Monitoring and Research, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Frits Steenhuisen
Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Oleg Travnikov
Department of Environmental Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Shuxiao Wang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China
Simon Wilson
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Secretariat, Tromsø, Norway
Rosa Wu
Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Qingru Wu
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, Beijing, China
Yanxu Zhang
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Wei Zhu
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
Scott Zolkos
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA
Data sets
Global Toxic Pollutants Emissions: EDGARv4.tox2 (Version v4) Marilena Muntean et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12155169
Geospatially distributed (gridded) global mercury emissions to air from anthropogenic sources in 2010.v2 Frits Steenhuisen and Simon J. Wilson https://doi.org/10.34894/F3J91I
Geospatially distributed (gridded) global mercury emissions to air from anthropogenic sources in 2015 Frits Steenhuisen and Simon J. Wilson https://doi.org/10.34894/SZ2KOI
Summary of anthropogenic mercury emission inventories [Data set] Qingru Wu https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11717314
Short summary
This paper introduces the Multi-Compartment Mercury (Hg) Modeling and Analysis Project (MCHgMAP) aimed at informing the effectiveness evaluations of two multilateral environmental agreements: the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. The experimental design exploits a variety of models (atmospheric, land, oceanic ,and multimedia mass balance models) to assess the short- and long-term influences of anthropogenic Hg releases into the environment.
This paper introduces the Multi-Compartment Mercury (Hg) Modeling and Analysis Project (MCHgMAP)...
