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Average concentrations of dissolved nutrients (NO3, DRP, K) in the large alpine rivers Rhine, Rhône, Ticino, and Inn, and in small alpine streams and glacier streams, are low compared to those in midland rivers. Concentrations of NO3 in the large rivers clearly exceed background concentrations. In spite of limited anthropogenic activities in alpine catchments, DRP concentrations in large rivers exhibited...
Trend analyses of the key parameters involved in acidification processes measured in 20 Alpine lakes during the period 1980–2004 revealed significant decreasing sulphate (15 out of 20) and increasing alkalinity trends (14 out of 20) in most studied lakes, while trends for base cations and nitrate were small and mostly insignificant. The average increase in alkalinity between 1980 and 2004 was 0.012...
Alpine glaciers are natural archives of past precipitation. At high elevations where melting is negligible and precipitation occurs as snow throughout the year the manifold information contained in the annual snow layers is well preserved. This information is accessed by ice core drilling and analyses. The stable isotope composition of water and the chemical impurities in the ice allow reconstructing...
Organic chemicals that are sufficiently persistent are capable of undergoing long-range transport and travel great distances from their sources through the atmosphere. Those organic chemicals that are more efficiently scavenged from the atmosphere in alpine environments than in the surrounding areas can become enriched in mountains, i.e. are found in higher than background concentrations at higher...
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