Decrease trend of dust event frequency over the past 200 years recorded in the Malan ice core from the northern Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 2866-2871

  Wang, Ninglian ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dust event; Malan ice core; Tibetan plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749477494     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/982005-237     Document Type: Article

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