A study of methanesulfonic acid in ice cores

• Main Author: Whung, Pai-Yei
• Other Authors: Eric S. Saltzman - Committee Chair
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarly Repository 1991
• Subjects: Physics; Atmospheric Science; Greenland; Dominion Range; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/dissertations/2946

Methanesulfonic acid (MSA), an oxidation product of DMS, is used as a biogenic sulfur tracer in deposited snow layers to better understand the relative importance of various sulfur inputs (biogenic, volcanic and anthropogenic sulfur) to both polar regions in the past.The ice cores and snowpit sample...