Carbonaceous particles reveal that Late Holocene dust causes the dark region in the western ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 58, Issue 210, 2012, Pages 787-794

  Wientjes, I G M ^a   Van De Wal, R S W ^a   Schwikowski, M ^b   Zapf, A ^b   Fahrni, S ^c   Wacker, L ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALBEDO; DUST; EOLIAN PROCESS; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; ORGANIC CARBON; OUTCROP; PARTICULATE MATTER; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84865595012     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2012JoG11J165     Document Type: Article

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