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A paired comparison of two precipitation chemistry sites in East-Central Mississipi
A paired comparison was performed on 2 years of precipitation chemistry data from Meridian and Newton, MS. The Meridian site is in violation of several National Atmospheric Deposition Program siting criteria, whereas the Newton site, 35 km west, is mostly in compliance. The two sites are compared th...
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Published in: | Atmospheric environment. Part A, General topics General topics, 1991, Vol.25 (8), p.1449-1461 |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | A paired comparison was performed on 2 years of precipitation chemistry data from Meridian and Newton, MS. The Meridian site is in violation of several National Atmospheric Deposition Program siting criteria, whereas the Newton site, 35 km west, is mostly in compliance. The two sites are compared through the use of volume-weighted means, deposition, logarithmic distributions, boxplots, paired
t-tests, the nonparametric Wilcoxon test, and a form of linear regression analysis that accounts for cases in which both populations are subject to error. Results indicate Meridian has higher concentrations of all measured ions except NH
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+. Elevated NH
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+ concentrations at Newton are most likely due to the location of the site in a cattle pasture. Significant differences (95% confidence level) were found for Cl
−, Na
+, K
+, Ca
2+ and Mg
2+. SO
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2− was found to be borderline significant. |
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ISSN: | 0960-1686 |
DOI: | 10.1016/0960-1686(91)90004-Q |