Water-soluble elements in snow and ice on Mt. Yulong

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 574, Issue , 2017, Pages 889-900

  Niu, Hewen ^a,c,i   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Shi, Xiaofei ^d   He, Yuanqing ^a   Lu, Xixi ^e   Shi, Xiaoyi ^d   Paudyal, Rukumesh ^a   Du, Jiankuo ^f   Wang, Shijin ^a   Du, Jun ^g,h   Chen, Jizu ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

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

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

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Changing and Reducing Disaster of Gansu Province   (China)

^h Key Open Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Disaster Reduction of China   (China)

ⁱ NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Fast snow melting; Mt. Yulong; Tibetan Plateau; Total nitrogen; Water soluble organic carbon

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; MELTING; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOLYSIS;

MT. YULONG; SNOW-MELTING; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TOTAL NITROGEN; WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC CARBON;

SNOW;

AMMONIA; CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE ION; ICE; MAGNESIUM ION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; POTASSIUM ION; SNOW; SODIUM ION; SULFATE;

AIR-SNOW INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; MELTWATER; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SNOWMELT; SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GLACIER; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIBET; WINTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YULONG SNOW MOUNTAINS; YUNNAN;

EID: 84988489824     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.114     Document Type: Article

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