Chemical records in snowpits from high altitude glaciers in the tibetan plateau and its surroundings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Yulan ^a,b   Kang, Shichang ^a,c   Zhang, Qianggong ^d   Gao, Tanguang ^e   Guo, Junming ^d   Grigholm, Bjorn ^f   Huang, Jie ^d   Sillanpää, Mika ^b   Li, Xiaofei ^a   Du, Wentao ^a   Li, Yang ^d   Ge, Xinlei ^g  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^g NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW; DUST; ION; OXYGEN; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR MASS; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTINENTAL ICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLACIER; GLACIOCHEMISTRY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOWPIT; ANALYSIS; DUST; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASON; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIBET;

ALTITUDE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; IONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SNOW; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIBET;

EID: 84969786156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155232     Document Type: Article

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