Dust Deposited on Snow Cover in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, 2011–2016: Compositional Variability Bearing on Snow-Melt Effects

Physics & Astronomy

• San Juan Mountains (CO) 100%
• snow cover 79%
• snow 56%
• dust 34%
• water resources 18%
• reflectance 18%
• Colorado River (North America) 12%
• magnetite 11%
• carbon 10%
• river basins 10%
• resources management 9%
• water management 8%
• fuel combustion 7%
• mineralogy 7%
• fossil fuels 7%
• iron 7%
• hematite 6%
• sediments 6%
• albedo 6%
• rangefinding 6%
• contaminants 5%
• minerals 5%
• rocks 5%
• chemical composition 4%
• electron microscopy 4%
• time measurement 4%
• grain size 3%
• magnetic properties 3%
• oxides 3%
• water 2%
• radiation 2%
• metals 2%
• wavelengths 2%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• snow cover 42%
• snow 33%
• dust 31%
• melt 30%
• mountain 27%
• reflectance 22%
• effect 9%
• magnetite 9%
• organic carbon 8%
• particle 7%
• iron 6%
• magnetic property 6%
• goethite 5%
• black carbon 5%
• electron microscopy 5%
• water resources management 5%
• hematite 5%
• albedo 4%
• fossil fuel 4%
• silt 4%
• grain size 4%
• chemical composition 4%
• river basin 4%
• combustion 4%
• water resource 3%
• wavelength 3%
• oxide 3%
• radiation 3%
• particle size 3%
• metal 3%
• pollutant 3%
• laboratory 2%
• rock 2%
• modeling 2%
• rate 1%
• water 1%