Snow and Wet Precipitation, Oil Sands Region
Assess the importance of atmospheric deposition of contaminants as a contributor to ecological impacts of oil sands development and identify sources.
• Use snowpack measurements sampled across a gridwork to develop maps of winter-time atmospheric contaminant loadings for the region ~100 km from the major upgrading facilities
• Assess long-term trends in winter-time atmospheric deposition
• Determine the potential impact of wintertime snowpack mercury loads on tributary river water mercury concentrations (Spring Freshet) using Geographic Information System and hydrological modelling approaches
• Compare snowpack loadings to those obtained from precipitation monitoring and compare spatial patterns to PAC air measurements obtained from passive sampling network
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Date Created
2015-05-12
Date Published
2015-07-08
Temporal Coverage
2012-01-02 - Present
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Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada. (2015-07-08). Snow and Wet Precipitation, Oil Sands Region. Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada. https://www.canada.ca
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oil sands, monitoring, atmospheric deposition, contaminant, fate and transport, monitoring, polycyclic aromatic compound, particulate metals, snow, athabasca, river, basin, near-field, far-field, fort mcmurray, observation/measurement, precipitation, oil sands, snow, water - quality, assess toxicity, manage and monitor for environmental presence of hazardous substances and waste, monitor / assess substance and waste levels in air, water, soil, biota, science and technology branch, water science and technology, 1.3.2. ecosystem assessment and approaches, unclassified, prairie - alberta (ab), prairie - saskatchewan (sk), territories - northwest territories (nt)
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