A 108.83-m ice-core record of atmospheric dust deposition at Mt. Qomolangma (Everest), Central Himalaya

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-38

  Xu, Jianzhong ^a   Hou, Shugui ^a,f   Qin, Dahe ^a   Kaspari, Susan ^b   Mayewski, Paul Andrew ^b   Petit, Jean Robert ^c   Delmonte, Barbara ^c   Kang, Shichang ^d   Ren, Jiawen ^a   Chappellaz, Jerome ^c   Hong, Sungmin ^e  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dust; Himalaya; Ice core; Qomolangma (Everest)

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DUST; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

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

EID: 70949102809     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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