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Regional-scale impacts of the major tin plant on the chemical composition of atmospheric precipitation in the south of Western Siberia (Russia)

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This paper presents the results of a study of the Novosibirsk Tin Plant influence on the level of tin content in the environment in the southern Western Siberia. Based on the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and the tin content in the atmospheric precipitation that falls in 2014–2018 at the radius of 200 km from the emission source, it has been found that 90% of the precipitation events with an increased tin content and 75% and 82% of all Sn fluxes fallen, respectively, in warm and cold seasons were brought to the study area by air masses previously passed over the territory of the Novosibirsk Tin Plant. During the period of observation (from April 2014 to October 2018), the mean, median and weighted mean values of tin concentrations in atmospheric precipitation in the Southern Western Siberia were 0.25; 0.11 and 0.17 μg L−1, respectively. A significantly higher volume-weighted mean concentration of Sn was in cold period due to high sorption activity of snowflakes, but atmospheric deposition fluxes of tin were slightly higher in the warm period due to the more abundant precipitation and the larger number of events. The contamination factor calculated relative to the background territory (Valdai National Park, European part of Russia) showed that atmospheric precipitation collected at the southern Western Siberia is moderately contaminated with Sn. The main factors controlling the fluxes of Sn (emitted from the Novosibirsk Tin Plant) on the territory of the south of Western Siberia are the direction of the surface air masses movement, the frequency and abundance of precipitation, as well as the seasonal features of tin distribution in the system air–precipitation.

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This work was carried out under the investigational program of the IWEP SB RAS. Authors’ special thanks go to the staff of the Chemical Analytical Centre who took part in the research.

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This work was supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Basic Research Program SB RAS 2013–2020, project AAAA-A17-117041210242-1) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) (Project No 19-05-50057).

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Stepanets, V.N., Malygina, N.S., Lovtskaya, O.V. et al. Regional-scale impacts of the major tin plant on the chemical composition of atmospheric precipitation in the south of Western Siberia (Russia). Environ Earth Sci 80, 701 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-021-09970-3

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