Seasonal variation in long-range transported dust to a subtropical islet offshore northern Taiwan: Chemical composition and Sr isotopic evidence in rainwater

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 3386-3393

  Cheng, Miao Ching ^a   You, Chen Feng ^a   Lin, Fei Jan ^b   Chung, Chuan Hsiung ^a   Huang, Kuo Fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DISTILLED WATER; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INDONESIA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LEACHING EXPERIMENTS; MODEL RESULTS; NORTHERN TAIWAN; RELATED SUBSTANCES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOLCANIC GAS; WINTER MONSOON;

AEROSOLS; DISSOLUTION; LEACHING; SEAWATER; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

ISOTOPES;

CARBONIC ACID; RAIN; STRONTIUM;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; ASH; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CALCIUM; CARBONATE; DISSOLUTION; DUST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RAINWATER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM; SUBTROPICAL REGION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ACIDITY; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAIWAN; VOLCANO; WATER ANALYSIS;

EAST JAVA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; MERAPI; SUNDA ISLES; TAIWAN;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 77954759925     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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