Pollution level and distribution are among key indicators of townspeople’s life quality and accurate
pollution estimation and town pollution zoning proceeding from these estimates are, therefore,
challenging problems to be solved for big cities with highly developed industries. We carried out an
integrated assessment of some pollutants for Krasnoyarsk Town using the 2018 snow cover chemical
composition data and zoned the town by pollutant accumulation by cluster analysis. The resulting
zoning based on the simultaneous use of pollutant-specific data was visualized using GIS and
quantitatively confirmed the general public view of most districts of the town as being extremely
adverse ecologically. Unlike most studies, where decisions on pollution zone boundaries are either
intuitive, or made out of so-called “general considerations”, the cluster analysis-based methodology
applied in this study enabled to approach this problem algorithmically, i.e. to avoid a priori assumptions.
The analysis we carried out based on the results of our original experimental research approach
that involved a uniform methodology of snow sampling and analysis in the lab combined with
state-of-the-art methods of data processing and result visualization, revealed snow cover to be an
informative recorder and effective tool to obtain a picture of integrated pollution of urban areas.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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