Potentially toxic elements in rainwater during extreme rainfall period in the megacity Beijing: Variations, sources, and reuse potential

J Zeng, G Han, S Zhang, Q Zhang, R Qu - Atmospheric Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Air pollution has become a worldwide problem, which resulted in various environmental
threats to the human beings and surface ecosystem. It is thus significant to clarify the …

Temporal and spatial shifts in the chemical composition of urban coastal rainwaters of Kuwait: The role of air mass trajectory and meteorological variables

DR Svv, A Al-Rashidi, C Sabarathinam, B Alsabti… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The rainwater chemistry encompasses the signatures of geogenic and anthropogenic
processes along the regional air mass movement apart from the local sources. The …

Groundwater Management for Agricultural Purposes Using Fuzzy Logic Technique in an Arid Region

A Al-Rashidi, C Sabarathinam, DR Samayamanthula… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
The study aimed to determine groundwater's suitability for irrigation and cattle rearing in
Kuwait. In this regard, groundwater samples were collected from Umm Al Aish (UA) and …

Major ions and potentially toxic elements in atmospheric precipitation during the COVID-19 lockdown in Moscow megacity

D Vlasov, N Kasimov, I Eremina, G Shinkareva… - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
For the first time, the change in the physicochemical properties, ions composition,
concentrations, and ratio of soluble and insoluble potentially toxic elements (PTEs), as well …

Spatial and temporal variation of dissolved CO2 in rainwater from an arid region with special focus on its association with DIC and pCO2

SVV Dhanu Radha, C Sabarathinam… - Environmental Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Kuwait, being one of the leading oil producers in the world, is enriched with CO2 in the
atmosphere, despite the frequent dust storms. Rainwater dissolves the atmospheric CO2 …

Variation of centennial precipitation patterns in Kuwait and their relation to climate change

SVVD Radha, C Sabarathinam, F Al Otaibi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
The impact of climate change could be inferred by observing long-term climate variables like
temperature, precipitation, and evapotranspiration. A local study on the climatic factors such …

[HTML][HTML] Metal-free sampling methods for dust, rainwater, surface water, plants, and sediments: A selection of unique tools from the SWAMP laboratory

T Noernberg, T Bujaczek, CW Cuss, W Shotyk - MethodsX, 2024 - Elsevier
Contamination control remains one of the greatest challenges for the reliable determination
of many trace elements in environmental samples. Here we describe a series of metal-free …

Sharply and simultaneously increasing pollutant accumulations in cells of organisms induced by rare earth elements in the environment of Nanjing

Q Yang, M Cheng, Q Zhou, L Wang, Y Jiao, Y Liu… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Exploring the factors that simultaneously increase the accumulation of various pollutants in
cells of organisms to restrict the toxic effects of pollutants on organisms has become a focus …

Occurrence, non-carcinogenic and carcinogenic risk assessment of trace elements in rainwater in the vicinity of a cement factory in northeastern Nigeria

MB Sulaiman, JN Asegbeloyin, COB Okoye - Discover Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Rapid industrialization and urbanization result in atmospheric pollution with trace elements
precipitated and deposited by rain, affecting human health. This study determined the …

Trace elements in ambient aerosols and size-resolved fog droplets: Trends, enrichment, and risk assessment

A Chakraborty, T Gupta, AK Mandariya, S Tripathi - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Ambient particulate matter (PM) is composed of inorganic and organic components. The
contribution of each component is impacted by various factors such as emission sources …