Seasonal variations in heavy metals concentrations in present day Greenland snow

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 101-110

  Candelone, Jean Pierre ^a,d   Jaffrezo, Jean Luc ^a   Hong, Sungmin ^a   Davidson, Cliff I ^b   Boutron, Claude F ^a,c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

atmospheric pollution; Greenland; heavy metals; snow

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; SNOW; ZINC;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; GREENLAND; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEAVY METAL; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SNOW;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0030303691     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(96)05325-9     Document Type: Article

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