Rare earth elements in an ice core from Mt. Everest: Seasonal variations and potential sources

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 300-312

  Zhang, Qianggong ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a   Kaspari, Susan ^b   Li, Chaoliu ^a   Qin, Dahe ^a   Mayewski, Paul A ^b   Hou, Shugui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice core; Mt. Everest; Potential sources; Rare earth elements (REEs); Seasonal variations

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ICE CORE; ICE SAMPLES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MONSOON SEASON; MT. EVEREST; POTENTIAL SOURCES; REE PATTERN; SAHARA DESERT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SEASONALITY; SUMMER MONSOON; THAR DESERT; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; LANDFORMS; RARE EARTHS; SHALE;

RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ICE CORE; MONSOON; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; KHUMBU HIMAL; MOUNT EVEREST; RONGBUK GLACIER; XIZANG;

EID: 68949096595     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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