Some results of snow chemical surveys in the Kunnes River valley, East Tienshan mountains, China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 36, Issue 31, 2002, Pages 4941-4949

  Fengqing, Jiang ^a,b   Cheng, Zhu ^b   Wenshou, Wei ^a   Abe, Osamu ^c  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Ions; Kunnes River valley; Snow chemistry; Sulfate; The East Tienshan Mountains

Indexed keywords

LAKES; POTASSIUM; SNOW; SODIUM; SURVEYS;

CHEMICAL SURVEYS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BICARBONATE; CALCIUM ION; ION; POTASSIUM ION; SNOW; SODIUM ION; SULFATE;

HYDROCHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SNOW; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER;

CHINA;

EID: 0036805548     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00350-3     Document Type: Article

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