Concentrations of suspended matter and heavy metals in melted ice- and snow water from the Barents Sea ...

• Main Authors: Gordeev, Viacheslav V, Lisitzin, Alexander P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2005
• Subjects: Multiple investigations; Archive of Ocean Data ARCOD; Barents Sea; Novaya Zemlya; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.763557; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.763557

In September-October 1998, during Cruise 14 of R/V Akademik Fedorov to the Barents Sea, in the region of 82° N between the Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya archipelagos samples of snow and ice were collected within four polygons. By means of atomic absorption with an electothermal atomizer (onboard the ship) in filtered (dissolved form) and unfiltered (sum of dissolved and particulate forms) samples of snow melt and ice melt concentrations of Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr, Ni, Co, Pb, and Cd were determined in order to estimate level of potential contamination of snow and ice with these metals. Excluding data on Ni, Cd (and probably Cu) in ice that were regarded to be unsatisfactory because of probable contamination of the ice samples during drilling concentrations of all the elements in snow and ice of the northern part of the Barents Sea appeared to be close to their background values or below. An attempt to identify the main sources of metal supply to snow from the atmosphere by comparison of ratios of metal particulate ... : Supplement to: Gordeev, Viacheslav V; Lisitzin, Alexander P (2005): Heavy metals in the snow and ice cover of the Barents Sea. Translated from Okeanologiya, 2005, 45(5), 777-784, Oceanology, 45(5), 737-744 ...