Sources of black carbon to the Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau glaciers

Black carbon accelerates melting of glaciers in the Himalayas and Tibet, yet the source of these aerosols remains enigmatic. Here, the authors use isotope fingerprinting techniques to determine the origin of black carbon preserved in glacier ice cores recovered from the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau...

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Main Authors: Chaoliu Li, Carme Bosch, Shichang Kang, August Andersson, Pengfei Chen, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Bing Chen, Dahe Qin, Örjan Gustafsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12574