Seasonal variations of trace elements in precipitation at the largest city in Tibet, Lhasa

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 153, Issue , 2015, Pages 87-97

  Guo, Junming ^a,c,d   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Huang, Jie ^a,c   Zhang, Qianggong ^a   Tripathee, Lekhendra ^a,c,d   Sillanpää, Mika ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Lhasa; Seasonal variations; Tibet; Trace elements; Wet deposition

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; DEPOSITION; LEAD; MANGANESE; RAIN; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT; BELOW-CLOUD SCAVENGING; LHASA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIBET; WET DEPOSITION;

URANIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS;

AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MONSOON; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEASONAL VARIATION; TRACE ELEMENT; WET DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CHINA; LHASA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84906674936     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.07.030     Document Type: Article

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