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Matsunaga, Takeshi; Tsuzuki, Katsunori; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Kritsananuwat, R.*; Hanzawa, Yukiko; Naganawa, Hirochika
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 52(4), p.514 - 529, 2015/04
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：39.74(Nuclear Science & Technology)In a temperate, forested river catchment, distribution of dissolved rare earth elements (REE) during rainfall events was studied as analogues elements for transuranic nuclides. Concentrations of dissolved REE showed almost concurrent increases and decreases with the river water discharge during rainfall events. The concentration variations were tightly coupled with those of optical properties related to humic substances of dissolved organic matter (DOM). An ultrafiltration analysis revealed that colloidal REE present in 10 k - 30 kDa size fraction was the chief component for dissolved REE increase in high water flow condition. Shale-normalized concentration patterns of REE suggest an involvement of humic substances of DOM. A high correlation between size fractioned REE concentrations and specific ultraviolet absorbance suggests that aromaticity would be an essential property of DOM in regard to its complexation with dissolved REE in the studied river water.
Matsunaga, Takeshi; Tsuzuki, Katsunori; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Kritsananuwat, R.*; Ueno, Takashi; Hanzawa, Yukiko; Naganawa, Hirochika
Limnology, 15(1), p.13 - 25, 2014/01
Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：27.29(Limnology)We studied a discharge of heavy metals/metalloids in rainfall events to a rural stream in Kuji River basin of central Japan. In terms of elemental enrichment with respect to the crustal composition, we found similarity between atmospheric deposits and suspended particulate matter (SPM) at a rural stream. Both exhibited distinctive enrichment in several metals (Ni, Cu, Pb, Sb, and Cd). Elemental analysis of SPM in the stream in rainfall events at short intervals revealed that the metal enrichment factors in SPM were progressively decreased with an increase of flow rate. Judging from features of SPM, this phenomenon was probably caused by alternative change of SPM matrices from upper soil constituents to more lithologic material with increasing stream flow rate. In quantification of respective contributions of metals of different origins to fluvial discharge, change of SPM matrices during a rainfall event and involvement of dissolved fraction need to be taken into consideration.
Matsunaga, Takeshi; Yanase, Nobuyuki; Kritsananuwat, R.*; Tsuzuki, Katsunori; Hanzawa, Yukiko; Naganawa, Hirochika
Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Integrated Diffuse Pollution Management (IWA DIPCON 2008) (CD-ROM), p.370 - 371, 2008/08
The input of toxic trace elements to river water in a rainfall event was studied in a forested watershed in Japan. The riverine input of particulate trace elements varied with their different enrichment in suspended particles at low and high flow stages. This input was suspected to cause an increase in the levels of their dissolved components earlier in the rainfall and at a high flow stage. We also found that dissolved organic carbon from a soillayer can carry rare earth elements to a stream at a latter stage of high flow rate.
