ESTIMATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL HEAVY-METALS IN THE NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN RAINWATER AND TOTAL ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION

Authors
MIGON C CACCIA JL
Citation
C. Migon et Jl. Caccia, ESTIMATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL HEAVY-METALS IN THE NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN RAINWATER AND TOTAL ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION, Chemosphere, 27(12), 1993, pp. 2389-2396
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences
Journal title
Chemosphere → ACNP
ISSN journal
00456535
Volume
27
Issue
12
Year of publication
1993
Pages
2389 - 2396
Database
ISI
SICI code
0045-6535(1993)27:12<2389:EOAANH>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
As already done for aerosols, natural and anthropogenic Pb, Cd, Cu, an d Zn concentrations in rainwater have been separated by a statistical numerical method. The natural part is found to strongly decrease from aerosol to rainwater: from 10-20% to 1% for Pb, Cu and Zn, and from 0. 9% to 0.6% for Cd. The mean natural and anthropogenic levels in total atmospheric deposition is estimated.