Iron content and solubility in dust from high-alpine snow along a north-south transect of High Asia

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Guangjian ^a   Zhang, Chenglong ^a   Li, Zhongqin ^b   Zhang, Xuelei ^a   Gao, Shaopeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Asian dust; High alpine snow; Iron content; Iron solubility

Indexed keywords

DUST; GRAIN SIZE; IRON; PARTICLE SIZE; SNOW; SOLUBILITY;

CHINA; QILIAN MOUNTAINS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84863867303     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.17735     Document Type: Article

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