Heavy metals in air of an eastern China urban area and atmospheric deposition to the Yellow Sea

Elemental concentrations in suspended particulate matter were determined simultaneously by filter-sampling and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) and ICP optical emission (ICPOES) at a coastal, urban background site (Qingdao, Shandong, Eastern China) and an island site (Gosan, Jeju Island, Korea), in June 2003.