I am interested doing some work on the removal of contaminants from ice and snow ice. Could anyone let me know anything about some articles which can help me to identify most common contaminants in the mentioned samples.
While doing a search in scopus I could identify the following quote (below) works that report on snow contamination by different elemental and molecular species. I hope it helps you. Best Regards,
Individual and cumulative effects of agriculture, forestry and metal mining activities on the metal and phosphorus content of fluvial fine-grained sediment; Quesnel River Basin, British Columbia, Canada
(2014) Science of the Total Environment, 496, pp. 435-442.
Metal sequestration and remobilization in bioretention media
(2010) World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change - Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010, pp. 3028-3037. Cited 1 time.
Veschambre, S., Moldovan, M., Amouroux, D., Ulecia, J.M.S., Benech, B., Etchelecou, A., Losno, R., Donard, O.F.-X., Pinel-Raffaitin, P.
Import of atmospheric trace metal elements in the aspe valley and somport tunnel (Pyrénées Atlantiques, France): Level of contamination and evaluation of emission sources [Apports atmosphériques des éléments traces métalliques dans la vallée d'aspe et le tunnel du somport (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France): Niveau de contamination et évaluation des sources d'émissions]
(2008) Pollution Atmospherique, (198-199), pp. 215-234.
Role of physical and chemical processes in the internal structure formation and mass circulation of spitsbergen glaciers [Rola procesów fizyczno-chemicznych w ksztłtowaniu struktury wewnetrznej i obiegu masy lodowców spitsbergenu]
(2007) Publications of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Series M: Miscellanea, 30 (400), pp. 1-147.
I think Dr. Rodrigo Fernando dos Santos Salazar has almost exhausted the literature but i tend to think that it might be of importance if you checked heavy metal pollution as well.
Probably the main component of ice in area around towns as well as in natural landscape is a dust. Second topic is the composition of dust. According to my study (ice cover of lakes near Poznań, Poland) a main component are heavy metals and a few WWA (adsorption). Research of the lake ice and snow have shown that in first stage of water frozen ice is wery clean (as destilled water). The same situation in case the fresh snow. Most likely in older (than a few months) ice cover the number of chemical components are many more.