Quantification of salt dust pathways from a groundwater-fed lake: Implications for solute budgets and dust emission rates

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Zlotnik, Vitaly A ^a   Ong, John B ^a   Lenters, John D ^b   Schmieder, Jens ^a   Fritz, Sherilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDING; DUST; EMISSION; MOBILIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALINE LAKE; SALT; SOLUTE;

NEBRASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861409630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002107     Document Type: Article

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