Iron content and solubility in dust from high-alpine snow along a north-south transect of High Asia

Guangjian Wu; Chenglong Zhang; Zhongqin Li; Xuelei Zhang; Shaopeng Gao

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.17735

Iron content and solubility in dust from high-alpine snow along a north-south transect of High Asia

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 64 (2012): Issue 1

By: Guangjian Wu, Chenglong Zhang, Zhongqin Li, Xuelei Zhang and Shaopeng Gao

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.17735 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Submitted on: Oct 25, 2011

Accepted on: Feb 8, 2012

Published on: Jan 1, 2012

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