A novel back-trajectory analysis of the origin of black carbon transported to the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau during 1996-2010

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lu, Zifeng ^a   Streets, David G ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^b   Wang, Siwen ^b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BACK TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; BLACK CARBON; EAST ASIA; GLACIER MELTING; HIMALAYAS; MIDDLE EAST; POLICY MAKERS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; REMOVAL PROCESS; SNOW AND ICE; SOURCE REGION; SOUTH ASIA; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BACK ANALYSIS; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MELTING; POLICY MAKING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORY;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862948978     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049903     Document Type: Article

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