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The chemical composition of rainfall in a city of Northern Spain

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A study was carried out over a period of 4 yr on precipitation in Santander, a coastal city with heavy rainfall in the north of Spain. An increase in acidity was found for the latter period studied, from April 1984 to April 1985, possibly due to a change in the meteorology of the area in this period. The correlations between the ions themselves, and with pollution from SO2 and suspended particulate matter, as well as possible correlations with meteorological variables were analyzed using a multiple linear regression method. The influence of mid- and long-range transport of pollutants was also analyzed and found to be important when air masses come from highly industrialized zones both in Central Europe and in neighboring Spanish regions, although the contribution of the latter to total acid deposition is less owing to low frequency and the usually low volume of precipitation.

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  1. Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Cardenal Herrera Oria s/n, 39011, Santander, Spain

    Nieves Diaz-Caneja & Isabel Gutierrez

  2. Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain

    Aurelia Bonet & Eugenio Villar

  3. Data Processing Section, National Institute of Agrarian Research, P.O. Box 8111, 28080, Madrid, Spain

    Antonio Martinez

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Diaz-Caneja, N., Bonet, A., Gutierrez, I. et al. The chemical composition of rainfall in a city of Northern Spain. Water Air Soil Pollut 43, 277–291 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00279197

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