The 14C "bomb spike" determines the age spread and age of CO2 in Law Dome firn and ice

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3345-3348

  Levchenko, V A ^a,b,c,d   Francey, R J ^a   Etheridge, D M ^a   Tuniz, C ^b,e   Head, J ^c   Morgan, V I ^d,f   Lawson, E ^b,e   Jacobsen, G ^b,e  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Australian Nucl Sci/Technol O ^*

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^f ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CARBON DIOXIDE; DOMES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; DIRECT INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MODEL INDEPENDENT; MOVING AVERAGES; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; SMOOTHING WINDOWS; SNOW ACCUMULATION;

ICE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

BOMB SPIKES; FIRN; RADIOCARBON;

AGE SPREAD; BOMB SPIKE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON-14; FIRN; ICE; RADIOCARBON;

ANTARCTICA, LAW DOME;

EID: 0030282224     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03156     Document Type: Article

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