Black carbon and mineral dust in snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau

Cryosphere

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 413-431

  Zhang, Yulan ^a   Kang, Shichang ^a,b   Sprenger, Michael ^c   Cong, Zhiyuan ^b   Gao, Tanguang ^d   Li, Chaoliu ^b   Tao, Shu ^e   Li, Xiaofei ^a   Zhong, Xinyue ^a   Xu, Min ^a   Meng, Wenjun ^e   Neupane, Bigyan ^a   Qin, Xiang ^a   Sillanpää, Mika ^f  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

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

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ALBEDO; BIOMASS BURNING; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYOSPHERE; MINERAL DUST; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 85041710197     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-413-2018     Document Type: Article

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