Environmental significance of levoglucosan records in a central Tibetan ice core

Chao You1, Tandong Yao1, Chao Xu1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

Science Bulletin
|January 20, 2023
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