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Pollutant concentrtion in fog-water at Kopisty (1999 – 2004)
Fišák, Jaroslav ; Chaloupecký, Pavel ; Fottová, D.
In this contribution, results of our studies devoted to analyses of fog water samples collected at the meteorological observatory over the period of 1999 - 2004 are summarized. The study deals with the parameters: conductivity, acidity and following selected ions: NH4+, Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, F-, Cl-, NO3- and SO42-. Overall, the total concentration of selected ions was remarkably decreasing during the period 2000 - 2004. Specifically, we found out an increase in the cation fraction for NH4+ and Ca2+, and a decrease in the anion NO3- fraction in the mean annual sample.
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Occult precipitation and chemistry of a small mountainous catchment
Tesař, Miroslav ; Šír, Miloslav ; Fottová, D.
The present contribution deals with the importance of occult precipitation from the wind-driven low clouds and fogs onto the vegetation cover in the selected mountainous regions of the Czech Republic (Šumava Mts., Jizerské hory Mts. and Krkonoše – Giant Mts.). The experimental monitoring network and sample taking devices for the collecting of samples of water from fogs and low clouds are described in fully details. The attention is paid especially to the evaluation of water and pollutants amount incoming to the monitored regions via occult precipitation.
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Occult precipitation as an important input to water and mass balance of the mountainous catchment
Tesař, Miroslav ; Šír, Miloslav ; Kulasová, A. ; Fottová, D. ; Eliáš, Václav
Present article deals with observation, assessment and modelling of the occult precipitation at the small representative basins in the National Park of the Šumava Mts. (Liz, 0,99 km2, 828 - 1024 m n.m.), National Park of Krkonoše (Giants) Mts. (Modrý potok, 2,62 km2, 1010 - 1554 m n.m.) and in the Protected Landscape Region of the Jizerské hory Mts.(Uhlířská, 1,87 km3, 780 - 870 m n.m.). The amount of occult precipitation was estimated with the use of the mathematical micrometeorological model and frog and cloud water samples collected with the help of passive and active collectors were chemically analysed.
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Occult precipitation as an important contribution to the wet deposition in Bohemian Forest
Tesař, Miroslav ; Fottová, D. ; Eliáš, Václav ; Šír, Miloslav
Together six active fog-water collectors and ten passive fog-water collectors were installed in various suitably chosen mountainous parts and urban regions of the Czech Republic with different pollutants loads in order to evaluate if site-to-site differences exist. Fog deposition rates is calculated with the use of the Lovett's mathematical micrometeorogical and obtained samples of cloud were analysed for major ions. Estimated wet deposition for example for NH4+, NO3- and SO4-2 via fog and cloud droplets impaction and sedimentation represents 826, 1810 and 1900 kgkm-2 year-1, respectively.
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Deposited precipitation in the Bohemian Forest
Tesař, Miroslav ; Šír, Miloslav ; Fottová, D.
Contribution deals with an observation and evaluation of occult precipitation in the Bohemian Forest (=Sumava Mts.). Although occult precipitation is less important type of the wet deposition from the quantitative point of view, this so-called horizontal precipitation represents important input of delivered matter into many mountainous and urban areas.
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Impact of metabolites of the forest vegetation on the chemistry of throughfall
Skřivan, Petr ; Navrátil, Tomáš ; Vach, Marek ; Špičková, Jitka ; Fottová, D.
The chemistry of throughfall is a result of numerous processes that affect the concentrations of its individual components in the original wet precipitation above the tree crowns. The precipitation entering the tree crowns is generally enriched throughout its interactions with the above - ground part of the vegetation. The samples of open place precipitation and throughfall have been collected since 1989 in the region of Kostelec n. Č.lesy. The monitored area is situated predominantly in the Nature State Reserve Voděradské bučiny on the bedrock of the Říčany and Jevany granites. The exact evaluation of the impact of metabolites on the resultant concentration and fluxes of individual monitored elements in throughfall, based on mere comparison with the corresponding values in open place precipitation, is faced with several problems. First, the chemistry of throughfall reflects more the chemical composition of aerosol from lower parts of the atmosphere, as it is more or less effectively swept out by the above ground growth. The vegetation surface also entraps the reactive atmospheric gasses. Finally, the original precipitation solution is thickened through the evapotranspiration and it is enriched by the excluded and leached metabolites. The estimate of the extent of metabolic activity of the forest trees on the chemistry of throughfall was therefore limited on the comparison of a relative magnitude of normalised fluxes of individual elements in a given type of throughfall. The fluxes of individual elements in a beech- and spruce throughfall were normalised on the Na fluxes, with respect to the supposed zero metabolic share of Na in throughfall and to its predominantly natural sources in the atmospheric aerosol. The calculation of the enrichment factor Ef of the individual elements was then executed by means of the relation EfTFB,TFS (Me) = FBP Na / FTFB,TFS Na* FTFB,TFS Me / FBP Me, where EfTFB,TFS (Me) is the enrichment factor od the particular element in a given type of throughfall, FBP Na a FBP Me are the mean annual deposition fluxes of Na and the element Me on an open place, and FTFB,TFS Na a FTFB,TFS Me are the mean annual fluxes of Na and the element Me in throughfall. Values of the enrichment factor for the individual elements are presented in the article in the Tab. 1. Values higher than 1 should generally indicate the presence of metabolic products of the vegetation. The highest Ef values were found, after expectations, for the basic nutrients and significant essential elements, in a row of K > Mg > Mn > Ca. Together with these elements, significant impact of leached metabolites was also found for Rb, Sr and Ba. The enrichment of throughfall with rubidium is extraordinary high, probably even higher than that of its homologue potassium. Surprisngly high values of the Rb deposition fluxes in both tyes of throughfall certify the extensive input of this element through the root uptake of the forest vegetation, which is contingent on very close chemical characteristics of rubidium and potassium (ionic radii, electronegativity, ionic character of bonding of these alkaline metals in all their chemical compounds etc.). We have not found, however, similar pronounced paralell between Ca, Sr and especially Ba, which is even more abundant in the underlying rocks and soils than Sr.
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