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Characteristics of Anthropogenic Pollution in the Atmospheric Air of South-Western Svalbard (Hornsund, Spring 2019)
Abstract
The character of atmospheric pollution and its impact on surface waters may vary substantially in space, and hence, we add a potentially important location for the studies of atmospheric air pollution to the map of the High Arctic. We have investigated the anthropogenic particle characteristics and selected persistent organic pollutant concentrations, in a priorly unmonitored location in the Arctic (Svalbard), exposed to a climatic gradient. Single-particle analysis of PM indicates that besides the prevailing natural aerosol particles, anthropogenic ones were present. The likely anthropogenic origin of some particles was established for spherical Fe-rich or aluminosilicate particles formed in high-temperature processes or metal-rich particles of the chemical composition corresponding to industrial products and atypical for natural minerals; soot, tar balls, and secondary sulfate were also likely of anthropogenic origin. Some of the observed anthropogenic particles could only come from remote industrial sources. POP concentrations indicated a background of LRAT, consistent with the ΣPCB concentrations and volatility profile. However, the ΣDDX composition indicating aged sources and an order of magnitude higher concentrations of both ΣDDXs and ΣHCHs than at other High Arctic monitoring stations indicate their potential source in two types of re-emission from secondary sources, i.e., from seawater and snowpack, respectively.
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Authors (7)
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Kozioł Krystyna dr
- Department of Environmental Change and Geochemistry, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
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Wanda Wilczyńska-Michalik
- Polish Geophysical Society (PTGeof.), 00-927 Warsaw
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Mikołaj Worosz Student
- Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University
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Marek Michalik
- Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University
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Sara Lehmann-konera Dr
- Uniwersytet Marii Curie Skłodowskiej Lublin
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- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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Water
no. 16,
ISSN: 2073-4441 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2024
- Bibliographic description:
- Pawlak F., Krystyna K., Wilczyńska-Michalik W., Worosz M., Michalik M., Lehmann-konera S., Polkowska Ż.: Characteristics of Anthropogenic Pollution in the Atmospheric Air of South-Western Svalbard (Hornsund, Spring 2019)// Water -, (2024), s.1486-
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/w16111486
- Sources of funding:
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- National Science Centre, Poland project No. NCN 2017/26/D/ ST10/00630, RiS ID 11108
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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