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Influence of regional atmospheric processes on the formation of dust pollution layers in Belukha glacial deposits

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Considered is a source of solid particles (dust) that are visually observed in the layers of an ice core sampled by a joint Russian-Swiss expedition in 2001 in a saddle of Mount Belukha of the Altai mountain massif (the Katun Range, Altai Republic). Based on analysis of the archival data and a synoptic situation in the Central Asian region, it was found that the most likely source of solid aerosol particles in a glacier layer dated by 1985 is the uplift and transport of the surface soil layer by a whirlwind, observed on August 7, 1985, in the settlement of Dolino, Rubtsov region, Altai Territory.

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  1. Institute of Water and Ecological Problems, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Molodezhnaya I, Barnaul, 656038, Russia

    N. S. Frolova, G. S. Zinchenko & T. S. Papina

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Original Russian Text © N.S. Frolova, G.S. Zinchenko, T.S. Papina, 2007, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2007, No. 3, pp. 93–97.

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Frolova, N.S., Zinchenko, G.S. & Papina, T.S. Influence of regional atmospheric processes on the formation of dust pollution layers in Belukha glacial deposits. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 32, 212–216 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373907030090

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