Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1087-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1087-2021
Research article
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01 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 01 Mar 2021

Brief communication: Spatial and temporal variations in surface snow chemistry along a traverse from coastal East Antarctica to the ice sheet summit (Dome A)

Guitao Shi, Hongmei Ma, Zhengyi Hu, Zhenlou Chen, Chunlei An, Su Jiang, Yuansheng Li, Tianming Ma, Jinhai Yu, Danhe Wang, Siyu Lu, Bo Sun, and Meredith G. Hastings

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Surface snow chemistry data along a traverse from coastal East Antarctica to the ice sheet summit, Dome A Guitao Shi https://doi.org/10.11856/SNS.D.2021.003.v0

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It is important to understand atmospheric chemistry over Antarctica under a changing climate. Thus snow collected on a traverse from the coast to Dome A was used to investigate variations in snow chemistry. The non-sea-salt fractions of K+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ are associated with terrestrial inputs, and nssCl is from HCl. In general, proportions of non-sea-salt fractions of ions to the totals are higher in the interior areas than on the coast, and the proportions are higher in summer than in winter.