Climatic and anthropogenic changes are able to engender modifications in the aerosol composition at different geographical and temporal scales. The present study addresses this question for the trace metal concentrations (TM=Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Pb, Cd and Zn) of aerosol from the North-western Mediterranean coast of France (Cap Ferrat, nearby Nice) between 1986 and 2008. From seasonal variat...

Proton-transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) is a technique developed almost exclusively for the detection of gaseous organic compounds in air. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air have both natural and anthropogenic sources. Natural sources include the emission of organic gases by living objects, both plants and animals. A well-known example, which is discussed later in this review,...

the present study has been conducted to determine the surface water quality of urban area in savar, dhaka, bangladesh by determining some water quality parameters (transparency, temperature, ph, ec, eh, do, tss, tds, ts, bod5, cod, toc, cl-, br-, so4-2, no3-, no2-, po4-3, tp, hco3- and total alkalinity) as well as the status of phytoplankton’s community in the water from two lakes (tiger lake a...

The contamination of soils by trace elements is a major concern for soil quality. This study based on the analysis 356 samples from RMQS monitoring network to establish spatial distribution and origin six (As, Cd, Cu, Cr, Ni, Pb) in south-western region France (area 90,293 km2). An exploratory multivariate statistical analysis, geostatistics combined with geographic information system (GIS) wer...

Peat bogs are often used as archives of atmospheric deposition trace elements (TEs). However, chemical analyses TEs in peat provide little information about their ecological significance, subsequent to...

a r t i c l e i n f o The difference between the top of atmosphere shortwave clear sky (cloud and aerosol free, SWCLR) and aerosol sky radiative fluxes is known as direct radiative effect (DRE) for all aerosols or Direct Climate Forcing (DCF) for anthropogenic aerosols. There are several methods for calculating SWCLR including satellite-based methods and radiative transfer approaches. Since unc...

Air pollution is composed of a mixture of toxins, consisting of particles and gases emitted in large quantities from many different combustion sources, including cars and industries. A variety of anthropogenic and natural particle sources are present in ambient air. Throughout the past decade, the composition of air pollution has changed in developed countries from classical type 1 pollution, c...