Post-depositional enrichment of black soot in snow-pack and accelerated melting of Tibetan glaciers

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Baiqing ^a   Cao, Junji ^b   Joswiak, Daniel R ^a   Liu, Xianqin ^c   Zhao, Huabiao ^a   He, Jianqiao ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

black soot; enrichment; glacier melting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863246110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014022     Document Type: Article

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