Concentration and composition of dust particles in surface snow at Urumqi Glacier No. 1, Eastern Tien Shan

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-42

  Wu, Guangjian ^a   Zhang, Xuelei ^a   Zhang, Chenglong ^a   Gao, Shaopeng ^a   Li, Zhongqin ^b   Wang, Feiteng ^b   Wang, Wenbin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Central Asia dust; Concentration; Eastern Tien Shan; Element composition

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CENTRAL ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA DUST; COMPOSITIONAL HOMOGENEITY; CONCENTRATION; DUST COMPOSITION; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST PARTICLE; DUST TRANSPORT; EASTERN TIEN SHAN; ELEMENT COMPOSITION; FRESH SURFACES; HYSPLIT MODEL; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; JUNGGAR BASIN; SAMPLING PERIOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE AREA; SURFACE SNOW; TARIM BASIN;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EUROPIUM; GLACIERS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SNOW; TRACE ELEMENTS;

DUST;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; HOMOGENEITY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MORAINE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW; TRACE ELEMENT;

CHINA; URUMQI GLACIER NO. 1; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 77957802809     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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