First data on the composition of atmospheric dust responsible for yellow snow in Northern European Russia in March 2008

The descent of a large quantity of dust responsible for bright colors of atmospheric precipitation in the temperate, subpolar, and polar zones of the northern hemisphere is rarely observed [1–5]. In the twentieth century and in the beginning of the twenty-first century in the northern part of Europe...

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Published in:Doklady Earth Sciences
Main Authors: Shevchenko, V. P., Korobov, V. B., Lisitzin, A. P., Aleshinskaya, A. S., Bogdanova, O. Yu., Goryunova, N. V., Grishchenko, I. V., Dara, O. M., Zavernina, N. N., Kurteeva, E. I., Novichkova, E. A., Pokrovsky, O. S., Sapozhnikov, F. V.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences 2010
Subjects:
Arkhangelsk
nenets
Online Access:https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/29032/
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/29032/1/Shevchenko_et_al-2010-FirstDataOn.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X10040185
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Summary:The descent of a large quantity of dust responsible for bright colors of atmospheric precipitation in the temperate, subpolar, and polar zones of the northern hemisphere is rarely observed [1–5]. In the twentieth century and in the beginning of the twenty-first century in the northern part of European Russia, such events had not been registered right up to March 25–26, 2008. At that time in some parts of the Arkhangelsk region, Komi Republic, and Nenets Autonomous Area, atmospheric precipitation as moist snow and rain responsible for sand and saffron colors of ice crust formation on the snow surface was observed. Thus, due to detailed mineralogical, geochemical, pollen, diatom, and meteorological investigations, it was established that the main source of the yellow dust is the semidesert and steppe regions of the Northwest Kazakhstan, and the Volgograd and Astrakhan regions, Kalmykia.

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