Impacts of Asian dust storm associated with the stratosphere-to-troposphere transport in the spring of 2001 and 2002 on dust and tritium variations in Mount Wrangell ice core, Alaska

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2582-2590

  Yasunari, Teppei J ^a   Yamazaki, Koji ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asian dust; Climate; Ice core; Stratosphere to troposphere transport (STT); Tritium

Indexed keywords

ASIAN DUST; ASIAN DUST STORMS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DUSTS; CLIMATE; DEPOSITION PROCESS; DUST STORMS; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; INTER ANNUALS; MATERIAL TRANSPORTS; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NORTH PACIFIC; PEAK VALUES; SPRING-IN; STRATOSPHERE-TO-TROPOSPHERE TRANSPORT (STT); TRITIUM CONCENTRATIONS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; MOUNTINGS; STORMS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRITIUM; TROPOSPHERE;

DUST;

ICE; SNOW; TRITIUM;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DUST STORM; ICE CORE; STRATOSPHERE; TRITIUM; TROPOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; COAST RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WRANGELL MOUNTAINS;

EID: 64549161064     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.02.025     Document Type: Article

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