PINE NEEDLES AS A BIOMONITOR FOR ESTIMATION OF THE REGIONAL-SCALE DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

Abstract

Classic methods of the monitoring of pollutants to determine areas of their distribution from the sources have many limitations. The direct regular sampling of atmospheric air with a required number of sites in the study area is not an easy task. Results of modeling of the transport of polluted air masses often contradict experimental data. As a natural accumulative pattern, snow cover pollution characterizes the atmospheric state only during winter.