Sources of black carbon to the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau glaciers

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Chaoliu ^a,b   Bosch, Carme ^c   Kang, Shichang ^b,d   Andersson, August ^c   Chen, Pengfei ^a,e   Zhang, Qianggong ^a,b   Cong, Zhiyuan ^a,b   Chen, Bing ^f   Qin, Dahe ^d   Gustafsson, Örjan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; CARBON 14; FOSSIL FUEL;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPE; GLACIER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; COMBUSTION; GLACIER; TIBETAN (PEOPLE); WATER CYCLE;

CHINA; GANGETIC PLAIN; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

BOS GRUNNIENS;

EID: 84984623415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12574     Document Type: Article

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