Concentration, sources and light absorption characteristics of dissolved organic carbon on a medium-sized valley glacier, northern Tibetan Plateau

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2611-2621

  Yan, Fangping ^a,d,e   Kang, Shichang ^a,c,d   Li, Chaoliu ^b,c   Zhang, Yulan ^a   Qin, Xiang ^a   Li, Yang ^b,d   Zhang, Xiaopeng ^a,d   Hu, Zhaofu ^a,d   Chen, Pengfei ^b   Li, Xiaofei ^a   Qu, Bin ^e   Sillanpää, Mika ^e,f  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^f Florida International University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCHTHON; CARBON CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DUST; ICE COVER; LIGHT INTENSITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW COVER; STREAMWATER; VALLEY GLACIER;

CHINA; LAOHUGOU GLACIER; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84995487754     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-2611-2016     Document Type: Article

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