Can Volcanic Dust Suspended From Surface Soil and Deserts of Iceland Be Transferred to Central Balkan Similarly to African Dust (Sahara)?

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Dragana Đorđević, Ivana Tošić, Sanja Sakan, Srđan Petrović, Jelena Đuričić-Milanković, David C. Finger, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserová
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: High Latitude Dust sources; backward trajectories; chemical fingerprints; atmospheric aerosol; long-range transport; Science; Q; Rangárvellir; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00142; https://doaj.org/article/5887d25025214c61a8645fe8de559a9d

In this work we use chemical fingerprints as characteristics ratios of specific crustal elements Ca/Al, Fe/Al, K/Al, Mg/Al, Mn/Al, Ca/Fe, and Mg/Fe to investigate the long-range transport of volcanic aerosols from Iceland. Volcanic dust enters the atmosphere during suspension processes from Icelandi...