{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Xie Z"],"funding":["National Natural Science Foundation of China","National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)"],"pagination":["1100"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12852816"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["17(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Atmospheric mercury depletion events (AMDEs) are a unique phenomenon in polar mercury cycling, involving intense atmospheric mercury oxidation and deposition that amplify marine mercury sinks. The Southern Ocean, a critical hotspot for environmental mercury exposure, exhibits AMDEs whose characteristics and distribution patterns remain unclear. This study presents the observational dataset of atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) across the circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean. We observed pronounced summertime AMDEs that drove high spatial heterogeneity in circumpolar GEM distribution. By combining Generalized Additive Models (GAM) simulations with multi-platform observational evidence, we demonstrate that the Antarctic continental outflow largely shapes the circumpolar distribution of s"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Continental outflow shapes the circum-Antarctic pattern of summertime atmospheric mercury depletion zones."],"pmcid":["PMC12852816"],"funding_grant_id":["42306248","42430410"],"pubmed_authors":["Liu H","Yue F","Xie Z","Magand O","Zhan H","Tian B","Dommergue A","Angot H"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Continental outflow shapes the circum-Antarctic pattern of summertime atmospheric mercury depletion zones.","description":"Atmospheric mercury depletion events (AMDEs) are a unique phenomenon in polar mercury cycling, involving intense atmospheric mercury oxidation and deposition that amplify marine mercury sinks. The Southern Ocean, a critical hotspot for environmental mercury exposure, exhibits AMDEs whose characteristics and distribution patterns remain unclear. This study presents the observational dataset of atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) across the circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean. We observed pronounced summertime AMDEs that drove high spatial heterogeneity in circumpolar GEM distribution. By combining Generalized Additive Models (GAM) simulations with multi-platform observational evidence, we demonstrate that the Antarctic continental outflow largely shapes the circumpolar distribution of s","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Dec","modification":"2026-06-15T08:51:39.341Z","creation":"2026-06-15T03:11:29.168Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12852816","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41453901"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-025-67864-5"]}}