Atmospherically deposited major and trace elements in the winter snowpack along a gradient of altitude in the Central Pyrenees: The seasonal record of long-range fluxes over SW Europe

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 582-595

  Bacardit, Montserrat ^a   Camarero, Lluís ^a  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

High mountain; Long range pollution; Major and trace elements; Pyrenees; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE RANGE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; DUST PARTICLE; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; HIGH MOUNTAIN; HIGH MOUNTAINS; LOCAL INFLUENCE; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MAJOR IONS; PARTICULATE FRACTION; POLAR AREAS; PYRENEES; SEA SALTS; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STRONG WINDS; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST; WINTER SNOWPACK;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; AIR POLLUTION; ALUMINUM; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DUST; LANDFORMS; LEAD; LITHOLOGY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SNOW; SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ANALYSIS; ZINC;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; ELEMENT; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; NICKEL; SELENIUM; SNOW; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ACCUMULATION RATE; AEROSOL; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; DUST; IONIC COMPOSITION; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MOUNTAIN REGION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEA SALT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWPACK; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRACE ELEMENT; WINTER;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EUROPE; MEASUREMENT; NORTH AMERICA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND; WINTER;

PYRENEES;

EID: 73749084819     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.06.022     Document Type: Article

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