Dust concentration and flux in ice cores from the Tibetan Plateau over the past few decades

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 197-206

  Wu, Guangjian ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   Xu, Baiqing ^a   Tian, Lide ^a   Zhang, Chenglong ^a   Zhang, Xuelei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; ICE CORE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE FLUX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78649688495     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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