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Physicochemical characteristics and sources of atmospheric dust deposition in snow packs on the glaciers of western Qilian Mountains, China Cover

Physicochemical characteristics and sources of atmospheric dust deposition in snow packs on the glaciers of western Qilian Mountains, China

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 66 (2014): Issue 1
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|Jan 2014
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v66.20956 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 20956 - 20956
Submitted on: Mar 26, 2013
Accepted on: Dec 6, 2013
Published on: Jan 1, 2014
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
atmospheric dust,
physicochemical characteristics,
SEM–EDX,
dust source,
glacier melting,
western Qilian Mountains

© 2014 Zhiwen Dong, Dahe Qin, Shichang Kang, Jiawen Ren, Jizu Chen, Xiaoqing Cui, Zhiheng Du, Xiang Qin, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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