A high-resolution record of atmospheric dust composition and variability since A.D. 1650 from a Mount Everest ice core

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3910-3925

  Kaspari, Susan ^a,b   Mayewski, P A ^a,c   Handley, M ^a   Kang, S ^c   Hou, S ^c   Sneed, S ^a   Maasch, K ^a   Qin, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL INDEX; ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DUST AEROSOLS; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST EMISSION; DUST GENERATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE CORE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MOUNT EVEREST; REGIONAL VARIATION; THAR DESERT; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; ERBIUM; EUROPIUM; GROUNDWATER; HOLMIUM; LUTETIUM; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MOUNTINGS; OZONE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROMETRY; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; YTTERBIUM;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ICE CORE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOMS; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU HIMAL; MOUNT EVEREST;

EID: 68749104728     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2518.1     Document Type: Article

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