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Atmospheric Circulation and Glaciochemical Records

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Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers

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Synonyms

Glaciochemical records; Ice core records

Definition

Atmospheric circulation. Patterns of horizontal and vertical air movements above earth surface, mainly including movement strength and direction.

Glaciochemical records. Chemical species data recorded in glacier snow/ice.

Since chemical species were analyzed from ice cores retrieved from glaciers or ice sheet and were used to investigate climate and environmental changes in 1960s, the environmental significances of glaciochemical records has been acknowledged by the researchers. Glaciochemistry is mainly influenced by atmospheric chemistry which has been stored in the glacier by dry and wet deposition. Atmospheric chemical species are affected by their sources and transport strength (namely atmospheric circulation change). Therefore, the glaciochemical records have been used not only in reconstructing the paleoenvironmental changes, but also for understanding the changes in atmospheric circulation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environmental Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.18, Shuangqing Rd., P.O. Box 2871, 100085, Beijing, China

    Shichang Kang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Shichang Kang

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  1. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

  2. New Delhi, India

    Pratap Singh

  3. University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA

    Umesh K. Haritashya

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Kang, S. (2011). Atmospheric Circulation and Glaciochemical Records. In: Singh, V.P., Singh, P., Haritashya, U.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2_30

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