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In recent years the study of how atmospheric aerosols and gases are deposited in the snow pack of the interiors of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has become a growing field, exemplified by the proceedings of this volume and the proceedings of the NATO ARW in Annecy in 1993 (Delmas, 1995). If the functions of transfer of various aerosols and gases from the atmosphere to snow/ice strata were known, then ice core data could be used to calculate past atmospheric compositions.
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Steffensen, J.P., Clausen, H.B., Christensen, J.M. (1996). On the Spatial Variability of Impurity Content and Stable Isotopic Composition in Recent Summit Snow. In: Wolff, E.W., Bales, R.C. (eds) Chemical Exchange Between the Atmosphere and Polar Snow. NATO ASI Series, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61171-1_31
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