A 500year atmospheric dust deposition retrieved from a Mt. Geladaindong ice core in the central Tibetan Plateau

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 166, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Zhang, Yulan ^a,d   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Zhang, Qianggong ^c   Grigholm, Bjorn ^e   Kaspari, Susan ^f   You, Qinglong ^g   Qin, Dahe ^a   Mayewski, Paul A ^e   Cong, Zhiyuan ^c   Huang, Jie ^c   Sillanpää, Mika ^d   Chen, Feng ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^f CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dust; Crustal ions; Ice core; Insoluble particle; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ICE; IONS;

ATMOSPHERIC DUST; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; ICE CORE; INSOLUBLE PARTICLES; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WINTER NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DUST; ENTRAINMENT; ICE CORE; IONIC COMPOSITION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CHINA; GELADANDONG; QINGHAI; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TANGGULA MOUNTAINS; XIZANG;

EID: 84934996713     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.06.007     Document Type: Article

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