Auxiliary material for Paper 2012GL054457

A unique seasonal pattern in dissolved elemental mercury in the South China Sea, a tropical and monsoon-dominated marginal sea

Chun-Mao Tseng 
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC 

C. H. Lamborg
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS 51, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA

Shih-Chieh Hsu
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan

Tseng, C. M., Lamborg, C. H., Hsu S. C. (2012). A unique seasonal pattern in dissolved elemental mercury in the South China Sea, a tropical and monsoon-dominated marginal sea, Geophys. Res. Lett. 39, DOI:10.1029/2012GL054457 

Introduction
The auxiliary material contains the information that methods used in this study regarding sampling strategy, analytical measurements, and data sources, assurance, and summary.  
1. 2012GL054457 -text01.txt, 2012GL054457 -text01.pdf
Text S1. Information for sampling and analysis, and data collection and reliability
2. 2012GL054457-ts01.txt
Table S1 Summary of relationship matrix among environmental variables collected at the SEAST station in the SCS between 2003 and 2007.
3. 2012GL054457-ts02.txt
Table S2 Summary of seasonal averages in Hg and variables at the SEATS station in the SCS between 2003 and 2007.