Regional characteristics of chemical constituents in surface snow, Arctic cryosphere

• Main Authors: Motoyama, Hideaki, Watanabe, Okitsugu, Kamiyama, Kokichi, Igarashi, Makoto, Goto-Azuma, Kumiko, Fujii, Yoshiyuki, Iizuka, Yoshinori, Matoba, Sumito, Narita, Hideki, Kameda, Takao
• Language: English
• Published: 国立極地研究所 2001
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Canada; Greenland; Severnaya Zemlya; arctic cryosphere; glacier; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Polar meteorology and glaciology
• Online Access: https://kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/7186/files/4491.pdf

Surface snow observations were carried out on many glaciers in the Arctic. The observational sites were in Svalbard，Severnaya Zemlya，Greenland and arctic Canada. The seasonal variations of chemical constituents in snowfall remained in the surface snow on the central Greenland ice sheet where the eff...