Atmospheric depositions of natural and anthropogenic trace elements on the Guliya ice cap (northwestern Tibetan Plateau) during the last 340 years

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 176, Issue , 2018, Pages 91-102

  Sierra Hernández, M Roxana ^a   Gabrielli, Paolo ^a,b   Beaudon, Emilie ^a   Wegner, Anna ^a   Thompson, Lonnie G ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric pollution; Coal combustion; Fossil fuel; Heavy metals; Ice core; Tibet

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CADMIUM; COAL; ICE; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; SNOW; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CENTRAL ASIA; FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION; ICE CORE; ICE-CAPS; LEADED GASOLINE; TIBET; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRACES ELEMENTS;

COAL COMBUSTION;

ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BISMUTH; CADMIUM; CESIUM; CHROMIUM; COAL; COPPER; FOSSIL FUEL; GALLIUM; GASOLINE; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; METAL; NIOBIUM; PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER; RUBIDIUM; SILVER; THALLIUM; TIN; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COAL COMBUSTION; FOSSIL FUEL; HEAVY METAL; ICE CAP; ICE CORE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHOSPHATE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHINA; COMBUSTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ICE CAP; MELTING POINT; MINING; NEPAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTING; SOUTH ASIA; TIBET; WESTERN EUROPE;

CHINA; GULIYA ICE CAP; INDIA; NEPAL; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; WESTERN EUROPE; XIZANG;

EID: 85039148457     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.11.040     Document Type: Article

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