Study of Cloud Water Samples Collected over Northern Poland

Żaneta Polkowska; Marek Błaś; Dariusz Lech; Jacek Namieśnik

doi:10.2134/jeq2013.05.0172

Study of Cloud Water Samples Collected over Northern Poland

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The paper gives the results of the first studies on the chemistry of cloud water collected during 3 mo (Aug.–Oct. 2010) in the free atmosphere over the area to the south of the Tri-City (Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia) conurbation on the Gulf of Gdansk, Poland. Taken from cumulus, stratus, and stratocumulus clouds by means of an aircraft-mounted collector, the water samples were analyzed for the following contaminants: anions (chlorides, fluorides, nitrates, sulfates, and phosphates), cations (lithium, sodium, potassium, ammonium, calcium, and magnesium), and trace metals. In addition, pH values were measured, and the type and composition of suspended particulate matter was determined. We discuss the relationship between the concentration of inorganic ions and the type of cloud from which water was sampled. The chemistry is also likely related to the circulation pattern and inflow of clean air masses from the Baltic Sea. Moreover, a relationship was found between the composition of the samples examined and the location of pollutant emission sources.

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Authors (4)

Żaneta Polkowska prof. dr hab. inż.
Marek Błaś
- Wydział Nauk o Ziemi i Kształtowania Środowiska Instytut Geografii i Rozwoju Regionalnego
Dariusz Lech
- Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny Centralne Laboratorium Chemiczne
Jacek Namieśnik prof. dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:: JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY no. 43, pages 328 - 337,
ISSN: 0047-2425
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2014
Bibliographic description:: Polkowska Ż., Błaś M., Lech D., Namieśnik J.: Study of Cloud Water Samples Collected over Northern Poland// JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. -Vol. 43, nr. 1 (2014), s.328-337
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.2134/jeq2013.05.0172
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