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Chemistry of Snow from High Altitude, Mid/Low Latitude Glaciers

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Glaciochemical records describing the spatial and temporal variation in the chemical content of snow and ice in HAM/LL glaciers allows us to improve our understanding of the distribution of chemical species in the atmosphere at these latitudes, and their variation over space and time. The resulting data base provides the framework for describing and understanding aspects of atmospheric chemistry and circulation, biogeochemical cycling, climate change, anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere, glacial hydrology and evidence of volcanic events. Furthermore, records from glaciochemical investigations are especially important when direct observations and measurements of the atmosphere are either spatially and/or temporally lacking.

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  1. Hydrology/Hydrogeology Program Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno , Reno, Nevada, 89557-0138, USA

    W. Berry Lyons

  2. Glacier Research Group Institute of the Study of Earth, Oceans, Space University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, USA

    Cameron Wake & Paul A. Mayewski

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  3. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, 2700 rue Einstein, Sainte-Foy, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada

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Lyons, W.B., Wake, C., Mayewski, P.A. (1991). Chemistry of Snow from High Altitude, Mid/Low Latitude Glaciers. In: Davies, T.D., Tranter, M., Jones, H.G. (eds) Seasonal Snowpacks. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75112-7_17

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