Organic compounds and suspension in snow-ice covers and soils in the vicinities of the Russian Antarctic stations

Abstract

The paper presents data on concentration of organic compounds (hydrocarbons, lipids, chlorophyll a, suspended organic carbon) and suspension in the snow-ice cover of lakes and soils in the vicinities of the Antarctic Russian stations (Novolazarevskaya, Progress, Druzhnaya‑4, Molodezhnaya, Mirny, Bellingshausen) obtained in 2008–2014.

Keywords

• antarctic continent
• chlorophyll
• hydrocarbons
• lakes
• suspension
• snow-ice cover
• soils
• subglacial water