Dust records from three ice cores: Relationships to spring atmospheric circulation over the Northern Hemisphere

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 34, 2003, Pages 4823-4835

  Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Mayewski, Paul A ^a   Yan, Yuping ^a   Qin, Dahe ^b   Yao, Tandong ^b   Ren, Jiawen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dust aerosols; Ice core; Northern Hemisphere; NssMg2+ records; Sea level pressure

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DUST; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SEA LEVEL;

SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE;

AIR POLLUTION;

MANGANESE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST; ICE CORE RECORD; INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SPRING;

EID: 0141504156     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.08.010     Document Type: Article

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