Ionic composition of wet precipitation over the southern slope of central Himalayas, Nepal

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2677-2687

  Tripathee, Lekhendra ^a,b,c   Kang, Shichang ^a   Huang, Jie ^a,c   Sillanpää, Mika ^c   Sharma, Chhatra Mani ^c,d   Lüthi, Zoe Lucia ^a,b   Guo, Junming ^a,b,c   Paudyal, Rukumesh ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^e POKHARA UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Central Himalayas; Major ions; Nepal; Precipitation; Seasonal variation; Spatial variations

Indexed keywords

ANION; CATION; RAIN; SNOW;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEPAL; SEASON;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIONS; CATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NEPAL; RAIN; SEASONS; SNOW;

EID: 84893632230     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2197-5     Document Type: Article

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