Abstract Mt. Everest (Qomolangma or Sagarmatha), the highest mount on Earth and located in the central Himalayas between China and Nepal, is characterized by highly concentrated …
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …
Abstract As the “Water Tower of Asia”, rivers originating from the Tibetan Plateau provide water resources for more than one billion residents in both its local and surrounding areas …
X Wang, W Yuan, CJ Lin, L Zhang… - … Science & Technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Soil is the largest Hg reservoir globally. Data of Hg concentration in surface soil are fundamental to understanding environmental Hg cycling. However, present knowledge on …
Alpine lake sediments and glacier ice cores retrieved from high mountain regions can provide long-term records of atmospheric deposition of anthropogenic contaminants such as …
D Qin, T Yao, Y Ding, J Ren - 2021 - books.google.com
This book introduces systematically the cryospheric science, covering the formation, development, evolution, and research methods of each component of the cryosphere, the …
B Yu, L Yang, H Liu, C Xiao, D Bu… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Deposition of atmospheric mercury (Hg) is the most important Hg source on the high-altitude Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau. Herein, total gaseous Hg (TGM) at an urban and a forest …
S Kang, Y Zhang, P Chen, J Guo… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings, also known as the Third Pole, play an important role in the global and regional climate and hydrological cycle. Carbonaceous …
X Wang, J Luo, W Yuan, CJ Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
As global climate continues to warm, melting of glaciers releases a large quantity of mercury (Hg) originally locked in ice into the atmosphere and downstream ecosystems. Here, we …