2001 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Internal Distribution of Acid Materials Within Snow Crystals
verfasst von : H. Fushimi, T. Kawamura, H. Iida, M. Ochiai, T. Nakajima, Y. Azuma
Erschienen in: Acid rain 2000
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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We found that river water is acidified not only in the first stage but also in the later stage of the snowmelt season in Japan, which differs from the so called acid shock occurring in the first stage of the snowmelt in the northern Europe. The acid shocks depend on the regional characteristics of the melt-refreeze processes forming the internal distribution of acid materials within snow crystals under the warm metamorphism. In a warm climatic region like the central Japan, there are possibilities to have the complicated distribution structure of acid materials within granular-snow crystals due to the repeated melt-refreeze processes even in midwinter. Consequently, the pH value of meltwater does not always increase as the snowmelt proceeds. Then, we showed the possibility by using the X-ray computed tomography that the domains with the acid materials exist in the inner parts of snow crystals. So, the acidification of the river water may occur even in the later stage of the snowmelt