Light-absorbing impurities accelerate glacier melt in the Central Tibetan Plateau

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 587-588, Issue , 2017, Pages 482-490

  Li, Xiaofei ^a,b   Kang, Shichang ^a,b,c   He, Xiaobo ^a,d   Qu, Bin ^e   Tripathee, Lekhendra ^a,f   Jing, Zhefan ^a   Paudyal, Rukumesh ^a,b,f   Li, Yang ^b,g   Zhang, Yulan ^a   Yan, Fangping ^e   Li, Gang ^h   Li, Chaoliu ^g  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

^d State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences   (China)

^e LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^f Himalayan Environment Research Institute (HERI)   (Nepal)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^h NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Albedo reduction; Glacier melt; Light absorbing impurities; Radiative forcing; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCELERATING GLACIER MELTS; ALBEDO REDUCTION; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; MODEL SIMULATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SCAVENGING EFFICIENCY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ICE;

AGED SNOW; BLACK CARBON; GRANULAR ICE; ICE; ORGANIC CARBON; SNOW; SNOWPIT; SURFACE FRESH SNOW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; GLACIER; MELT; ORGANIC CARBON; RADIATIVE FORCING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLACIATION; GEOGRAPHIC NAMES; GLACIER; LATITUDE; LIGHT ABSORBING IMPURITY; MINERAL DUST; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85027928969     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.169     Document Type: Article

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