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Atmospheric Total Suspended Particulate Trace Element Identification by XRF at Ilha Grande, State of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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Phosphorus, manganese, sulfur (S), lead, and strontium of atmospheric total suspended particulate matter, sampled during the rainy season and the dry season 2002 at the Ilha Grande Island (Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil) have been analyzed by XRF techniques. The results showed total mean concentrations of 27 ± 16 ng P m-3, 11 ± 7 ng Mn m-3, 159 ± 126 ng S m-3, 4.3 ± 2.6 ng Pb m-3, and 208 ± 148 ng Sr m-3. Generally, there is no clear influence of the two different climatic periods on the concentrations of most analyzed trace elements, with exception of sulfur the mean concentration of which, during the dry season, is about 60% higher than during the rainy season. This is probably due to biomass burning, a common practice in the Brazilian Southeast and Amazon region and/or to the presence of marine aerosols. The linear correlation coefficients strongly suggest the same source for P, Pb, and Mn. Some Pb, Mn, and P concentrations are in the range of typical values of urban areas. Potential sources of such elements are the urban and industrial emissions from the States of Rio de Janeiro and/or São Paulo.

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This project of the Programa de Pós-Graduação of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (PGG/UFF) has been supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES/Brazil), as a CAPES/COFECUB (Comité Français d´Évaluation de la Coopération Universitaire et Scientifique avec le Brésil/France) post-doctoral research, and the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA/France), where the XRF analyses have been realized. The authors also acknowledge the support of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais/Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (INPE-CPTEC/Brazil) for the meteorological data of the Ilha Grande Region.

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  1. Centro de Ciências, Laboratório de Geologia Marinha e Aplicada (LGMA), Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza (CE), Brazil

    Fernanda Souza do Nascimento

  2. Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Laboratoire Inter-Universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Université Paris 12, Paris, France

    Rémi Losno & Jean-Louis Colin

  3. Departamento de Geoquímica, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geoquímica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (RJ), Brazil

    William Zamboni de Mello

  4. Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil

    Heitor Evangelista da Silva

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do Nascimento, F.S., Losno, R., Colin, JL. et al. Atmospheric Total Suspended Particulate Trace Element Identification by XRF at Ilha Grande, State of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Water Air Soil Pollut 214, 525–538 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-010-0443-8

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