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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 66, Issue 8, Pages 1375-1386Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00862-6
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A recent survey by Bollhofer and Rosman (2000, 2001) has defined the extent to which Pb isotopic ratios in aerosols vary on a global scale. However, it is also important for some applications to know how stable these signatures are. Here we report time series from 38 sites distributed worldwide in which aerosols have been sampled for periods of between 4 months and 4 yr. Apart from a few sites that have atypical conditions, European sites exhibit variations of <0.6% in the Pb-206/Pb-207 ratio. There is, however, evidence of seasonal variations at sampling sites closer to Eastern Europe that probably reflect an enhanced westward transport of pollution in winter. The variability in Canada and the United States is now larger than before due to a decrease of airborne Pb levels coupled with an increase in the variety of industrial sources. The temporal changes observed in the United States do not exhibit a seasonal pattern. One site in Winnipeg, Canada, showed an extremely large variation, probably the result of seasonal changes influencing the direction of movement of local smelting emissions. Temporal variations in mainland Australia are comparatively small, with a typical range of 0.2% in the Pb-206/Pb-207 ratio and isotopic ratios that indicate leaded petrol was still a major source of atmospheric Pb over the sampling period. Copyright (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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