The nitrate deposits of the Atacama Desert are unique when one considers that in most surface environments nitrate is produced or consumed by biological processes and is easily washed away by rain. Nitrate deposits have ...

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic metal that is transported globally through the atmosphere. Emissions of Hg from mineral reservoirs and recycling between soil/biomass, oceans, and the atmosphere are fundamental to the global Hg ...

Atmospheric pressure plasma jet was used to deposit polymer films from argon/air/acetylene mixture. Depending on the gas composition, three modes of operation were observed and characterized. The film deposited by a ...

In the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth, fog deposition plays an important role for the water balance and for the survival of vulnerable ecosystems. The eddy covariance method, previously applied for the ...

This article explores the assessment of atmospheric deposition, from the analysis of the sampling methods, the analytical procedures for chemical characterisation of pollutants, and the main results from the scientific ...

Atmospheric input of POPs (e.g., organochlorine pesticides [OCPs], halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons -polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chlorinated or brominated dibenzofuran and dibenzo-p-dioxins [PCDDs/DFs, PBDDs/DFs]) ...

In this work, the influence of the interannual variation of meteorological input data on the nitrogen (N) deposition estimated applying atmospheric dispersion models is discussed. As a case study, the deposition of atmospheric ...