Atmospheric Deposition of Lead and Cadmium in a Central European Country over the Last Three Decades

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020699%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000089" target="_blank" >RIV/00020699:_____/23:N0000089 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/23:10457876
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/1/19" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/1/19</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010019" target="_blank" >10.3390/atmos14010019</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Atmospheric Deposition of Lead and Cadmium in a Central European Country over the Last Three Decades
Original language description
Lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) levels in ambient air were explored due to their toxicity and deleterious environmental effects. The aim of this study was to assess the time tendencies and spatial changes in Pb and Cd atmospheric deposition in a Central European country with a long history of ambient air pollution. We used measured data on precipitation chemistry and ambient air pollutant concentrations in the Czech Republic (CR) obtained within a nation-wide monitoring network. Our analysis is based on spatial patterns of annual wet-only and dry deposition fluxes constructed for 1996–2021. The results indicated that both Pb and Cd deposition over the CR during the last three decades decreased substantially, about 10 times, the absolute values for Cd being one order of magnitude lower than those for Pb. The wet-only deposition pathway dominated over the dry deposition pathway. This trend reflects the heavy metal (HM) emission reductions in the CR and neighboring countries and is in line with decreasing trends in ambient air HM concentrations in Europe. The spatial patterns showed that the northern industrial portions of the CR were loaded more as compared to the southern parts, and that the extension of affected regions has recently decreased substantially.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences

Project
<a href="/en/project/SS01010231" target="_blank" >SS01010231: Impact of atmospheric deposition on water considering climatical aspects</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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