The role of seasonality of mineral dust concentration and size on glacial/interglacial dust changes in the EPICA dronning Maud Land ice core

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 9916-9931

  Wegner, Anna ^a   Fischer, Hubertus ^b   Delmonte, Barbara ^c   Petit, Jean Robert ^d   Erhardt, Tobias ^b   Ruth, Urs ^a,e   Svensson, Anders ^f   Vinther, Bo ^f   Miller, Heinrich ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONALITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC SECTOR; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84945316281     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023608     Document Type: Article

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