“…Due to their unique chemical and physical properties, REEs have been extensively used as powerful tracers of material sources and geochemical processes in oceans, rivers, estuaries, lakes and groundwater (Elderfiled et al, 1990;Sholknovitz, 1995;Gabrielli et al, 2009;Johannesson et al, 2011;Pearce et al, 2013). It has recently been recognized that REEs in atmospheric particles and rainwater have a significant impact on the geochemical cycle of REEs in the hydrosphere (Greaves et al, 1994(Greaves et al, , 1999Wilkinson et al, 1997;Wang et al, 2000;Yang et al, 2007;Schacht et al, 2010;Suzuki et al, 2011;Klaver et al, 2014;Inguaggiato et al, 2016).…”