Atmospheric dust aerosols over the Eastern Pamirs: Major element concentrations and composition

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1227-1237

  Wu, Guangjian ^a   Xu, Baiqing ^a   Zhang, Chenglong ^a   Gao, Shaopeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Asia dust; Composition; Concentration; Pamirs; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ASIA DUST; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION; PAMIRS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DUST; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; DUST; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE;

CHINA; MUZTAGATA; PAMIRS; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 77956485370     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0446-1     Document Type: Article

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