naa a22 4500 510751989 CHVBK 20180411083108.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11270-013-1558-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11270-013-1558-5 A Comparison of Wet Deposition Collectors at a Coastal Rural Site [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel Liptzin, Michelle Daley, William McDowell] Atmospheric deposition occurs in a variety of forms and is crucial for the evaluation of nutrient budgets, critical loads, and pollution inputs across space and time. Atmospheric wet deposition is typically quantified by analyzing the chemistry of precipitation that is collected in some type of container with a lid that opens in response to precipitation. However, collectors can vary in shape as well as in the sensor that signals when precipitation is occurring. Here, we compare the collectors made by Aerochem Metrics and N-CON Systems Company Inc. The former has been widely used for several decades, while the latter is relatively new and has been used in a variety of configurations depending on the solute of interest. Event-based samples were collected from August 2007 to October 2008 and analyzed for nitrate, ammonium, sulfate, chloride, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC). A variety of approaches were used to assess the comparability of the two collectors. Regressions of concentration versus concentration from the two collectors were strong, and the slope did not differ from 1 for nitrate, ammonium, or sulfate. The median concentrations of nitrate, ammonium, and sulfate were, however, significantly higher in the N-CON collector, while there were no overall differences between collectors for chloride or DOC. Although we have observed some statistically significant differences between solute concentrations of samples collected from the two collectors, our mixed results suggest that these differences are relatively small. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Precipitation chemistry nationallicence Wet deposition nationallicence Acidic deposition nationallicence Collector comparison nationallicence Dissolved organic carbon deposition nationallicence Liptzin Daniel Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 114 James Hall, 56 College Road, 03824-2500, Durham, NH, USA aut Daley Michelle Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 114 James Hall, 56 College Road, 03824-2500, Durham, NH, USA aut McDowell William Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 114 James Hall, 56 College Road, 03824-2500, Durham, NH, USA aut Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-10 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1558-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1558-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liptzin Daniel Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 114 James Hall, 56 College Road, 03824-2500, Durham, NH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Daley Michelle Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 114 James Hall, 56 College Road, 03824-2500, Durham, NH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McDowell William Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 114 James Hall, 56 College Road, 03824-2500, Durham, NH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-10 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer