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This paper describes a statistical analysis of wet sulfate deposition data sampled by the Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network (CAPMoN) since 1988 till 1997. The goal of the investigation is to detect presence of prevailing significant changes in the probability distribution of annual samples collected by the network at each site. The considerations are based on a first order autoregression model with second order polynomial trend and methods used for analysis of variance and multiple comparison. Unlike studies suggesting existence of long term trends in the data, methods applied here indicate absence of any systematic changes in the observed annual concentration patterns at most of the sites.
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Mohapl, J. Assessment of Wet Sulfate Concentration Changes at CAPMoN Sites, Canada. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 8, 85–99 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023917805772
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023917805772