“…Ikegawa et al, 1999;Dahe et al, 1999;Grotti et al, 2011;Thamban and Thakur, 2013). In addition, the analysis of samples collected from snow pits (Boutron and Patterson, 1983;Planchon et al, 2002a,b;Hong et al, 2002;Hur et al, 2007;Fortner et al, 2011;Hong et al, 2012) provided important time-series or seasonal patterns of trace metal deposition to the snow.…”