The behavior of chemical compositions in the snow and atmosphere on the Mizuho Plateau

• Main Authors: Satoru Kanamori, Nobuko Kanamori, Okitsugu Watanabe, Masataka Nishikawa, Kokichi Kamiyama, Hideaki Motoyama
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: National Institute of Polar Research 1997
• Subjects: Geography (General); G1-922; Syowa Station; Mizuho; Mizuho Plateau; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15094/00008977; https://doaj.org/article/f675e94229a04fcb84bec05ff4eeb9eb

Atmospheric aerosols were studied at Syowa Station, Antarctica for 3 years from 1988 to 1990. Some chemical species, such as exSO_4^<2->, MSA and NH_4^+, showed an annual trend, high in summer and low in winter. The seasonal variations of gaseous HCl, SO_2,HNO_2,HNO_3 were also studied and the...