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Winter concentrations of metals in air at remote locations in the Arctic at the beginning of the 1980s and 1990s, and European emissions of As, Pb and Zn during the same periods
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Winter concentrations of metals in air at remote locations in the Arctic at the beginning of the 1980s and 1990s, and European emissions of As, Pb and Zn during the same periods
| Sources | Data sources: Ny-Ålsund, Norwegian Institute of Air Research; Alert, Len Barrie pers. comm.; Nord, Niels Heidam pers. comm. and Danish Environmental Protection Agency 1997; Severnaya Zemlya and Wrangel Island, Russian State Committee for Hydrometeorology Assessment ‘Heavy metals in the Arctic’; Point Barrow and Poker Flat, Glen Shaw pers. comm. and (Pb, Zn, Ni from ‘Gates of the Arctic’ station, Fairbanks near Poker Flat) Polissar, A.V., P.K. Hopke, W.C. Malm and J.F. Sisler, 1996. The ratio of aerosol optical absorption coefficients to sulfur concentrations as an indicator of smoke from forest fires when sampling in polar regions. Atmos. Environ. 30:1147-1157. (AAR Figure 7.25) | ||||
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