Chemical composition of the snowpack during the OASIS spring campaign 2009 at Barrow, Alaska

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Jacobi, H W ^a   Voisin, D ^a   Jaffrezo, J L ^a   Cozic, J ^a   Douglas, T A ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Environmental Sciences US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Bldg 4070 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DUST; GASES; MAGNESIUM; NITRATES; NITRIC ACID; SEA ICE; SODIUM SULFATE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BLOWING SNOW; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COASTAL LOCATIONS; DIAMOND DUST; FROST FLOWERS; GASPHASE; HIGH REACTIVITY; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MARINE SOURCES; MIRABILITE; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE SOURCES; NORTHERN ALASKA; REACTIVE SPECIES; SEA SALTS; SEASONAL SNOWPACK;

SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BROMIDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FLOWER; GAS PHASE REACTION; HOAR FROST; METAMORPHISM; NITRATE; OASIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEA ICE; SEA SALT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWPACK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); SURFACE AREA;

ALASKA; BARROW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858396615     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016654     Document Type: Article

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