Snow cover as an indicator of cumulative man-made pollution in the area of influence of cities and roads

Ground and satellite monitoring of atmospheric pollution processes in urban areas

“…The use of modern observation tools and mathematical modeling makes it possible to obtain a picture of the processes of pollutants transport in the atmosphere, areas of pollution, to assess the total aerosol fallout [1,2,3,4]. Snow cover is the budgetary and informative material for conducting ground and satellite observations in Siberia [3,5,6,7,8]. It accumulates the multicomponent composition of pollutants and reflects the spatial dynamics of the spread of atmospheric emissions from sources.…”

“…It accumulates the multicomponent composition of pollutants and reflects the spatial dynamics of the spread of atmospheric emissions from sources. Due to the snow cover, winter satellite images provide a picture of aerosol deposition of impurities across the territories [5,6,9,10,11,12]. Lowparameter models of mono-and polydisperse, in the case of low sources -light impurities can be used to reconstruct contamination fields.…”

Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons in the Vicinity of the Major Highways of Novosibirsk

“…A reliable indicator of Siberian territories contamin ation is a snow cover which, as a n atural tablet-accumulator gives the value of dry and wet aerosol preci pitations during the winter period [14,15]. In comparison with air, snow sampling does not require complex equi pment.…”