Wet precipitation chemistry at a high-altitude site (3,326 m a.s.l.) in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 5013-5027

  Liu, Bin ^a,b   Kang, Shichang ^a   Sun, Jimin ^a   Zhang, Yulan ^a   Xu, Ri ^a   Wang, Yongjie ^a   Liu, Yongwen ^a,b   Cong, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric N deposition; Major ions; Southeastern Tibetan Plateau; Trace elements; Wet precipitation chemistry

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL FUEL; MINERAL; NITROGEN;

ACID PRECIPITATION; AIR MASS; ALTITUDE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BIOMASS BURNING; COBALT; DUST; FUEL CONSUMPTION; HAZE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; NEUTRALIZATION; NICKEL; PH; SEA SALT; WET DEPOSITION;

AIR POLLUTANT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; PH; PRECIPITATION; SEASON;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALTITUDE; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; CHINA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOSSIL FUELS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRY; MINERALS; NITROGEN; SEASONS;

BAY OF BENGAL; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

INSECTIVORA;

EID: 84879692325     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1379-x     Document Type: Article

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