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Factors Controlling The Variability Of Total Suspended Particulate Matter And Heavy Metals Concentrations In The Atmosphere Of Cartagena (Spain)

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

21

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

945 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/AIR970621

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Moreno-Grau, S.; A. Perez Tornell, J.M. Angosto, J. Bayo, J.M. Moreno, A. Garcia-Sanchez & J. Moreno Clavel

Abstract

The study of the atmospheric aerosol in the city of Cartagena is being developed from 1990, measuring both total suspended particulate matter (TSP) and heavy metals (lead from 1990, and cadmium, zinc and copper from 1991). We have already collected in this period a daily data base, containing 2,803 TSP data, 3,237 lead data and 478 cadmium, copper and zinc data. Determinations have been carried out by means of gravimetric determinations for TSP, and atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) and differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV) for

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