Preliminary results from the chemical records of an 80.4 m ice core recovered from East Rongbuk Glacier, Qomolangma (Mount Everest), Himalaya

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 35, Issue , 2002, Pages 278-284

  Qin, Dahe ^a   Hou, Shugui ^a   Zhang, Dongqi ^a   Ren, Jiawen ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Mayewski, Paul A ^b   Wake, Cameron P ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ICE CORE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

HIMALAYAS; MOUNT EVEREST; NEPAL; QOMOLANGMA;

EID: 0036968495     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756402781816799     Document Type: Article

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