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Polymer Particles in Solid Atmospheric Precipitation in the Northwestern Kola Peninsula in 2020‒2021

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From December 2020 to April 2021, in the northwestern part of the Kola Peninsula, including the infrastructure of the city of Murmansk, the quantity of polymer particles in freshly fallen snow and the flow of polymer particles to the Earth’s surface with solid atmospheric precipitation were studied. The average number of polymer fibers was 783 ± 48 (n = 48), polymer fragments amounted to 5890 ± 884 (n = 48) particles per liter of snow melt water. The flow of polymer particles with solid atmospheric precipitation averaged 796 ± 119 (n = 48) particles per square meter per snowfall, more than 85% of which were polymer fragments smaller than 100 µm. In the city of Murmansk and on its outskirts, the snowfall per square meter of the Earth’s surface averages 30% more polymer particles than in the adjacent background areas of the region.

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  1. Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 183010, Murmansk, Russia

    M. V. Mityaev, M. V. Gerasimova, E. I. Druzhkova &  G. G. Matishov

  2. Federal Research Center, Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 344006, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    G. G. Matishov

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Mityaev, M.V., Gerasimova, M.V., Druzhkova, E.I. et al. Polymer Particles in Solid Atmospheric Precipitation in the Northwestern Kola Peninsula in 2020‒2021. Dokl. Earth Sc. 505, 586–590 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X22080128

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