Dust, Elemental Carbon and Other Impurities on Central Asian Glaciers: Origin and Radiative Forcing
Julia Schmale1,2, Mark Flanner3, Shichang Kang4, Michael Sprenger5, Qianggong Zhang6,7, Yang Li6,7, J. Guo6,7 and Margit Schwikowski8, (1)Paul Scherrer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland, (2)Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute (CAREERI), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China, (7)Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou, China, (8)Paul Scherrer Institute, Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences, Villingen, Switzerland
