Distribution and fall-out of 137Cs and other radionuclides over Antarctica

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 43, Issue 145, 1997, Pages 435-445

  Pourchet, M ^a   Bartarya, S K ^b   Maignan, M ^c   Jouzel, J ^d   Pinglot, J F ^a   Aristarain, A J ^e   Furdada, G ^f   Kotlyakov, V M ^g   Mosley Thompson, E ^h   Preiss, N ^a   Young, N W ⁱ  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^h OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0031391138     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022143000035024     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Bendezu, A. M. 1978. Application des mesures de plomb 210 et Sr-90 à l'étude des échanges entre l'atmosphère et la calotte Antarctique. (Ph.D. thesis, Université de Paris.)
2. Crozaz, G. 1967. Mise au point d'une méthode de datation des glaciers basée sur la radioactivité du Pb-210. (Thèse de doctorat, Université Libre de Bruxelles.)
3. Crozaz, G. 1969. Fission products in Antarctic snow: an additional reference level in January, 1965. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 6(1), 6-8.
4. 210. J. Geophys. Res., 69(12), 2597-2604.
5. Cutter, G. A., K. W. Bruland and R. W. Risebrough. 1979. Deposition and accumulation of plutonium isotopes in Antarctica. Nature, 279(5714). 628-629.
6. Delmas, R. and M. Pourchet. 1977. Utilisation de filtres échangeurs d'ions pour l'étude de l'activité β globale d'un carottage glaciologique. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 118 (Symposium at Grenoble 1975 - Isotopes and Impurities in Snow and Ice), 159-163.
7. Eisenbud, M. 1987. Environmental radioactivity from natural, industrial and military sources. San Diego, CA, Academic Press Inc.
8. Feely, H. W., H. Seitz, R. J. Lagomarsino and P. E. Biscaye. 1966. Transport and fallout of stratospheric radioactive debris. Tellus, 18(2-3), 316-328.
9. Giovinetto, M. B., N. M. Waters and C. R. Bentley. 1990. Dependence of Antarctic surface mass balance on temperature, elevation, and distance to open ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 95(D4), 3517-3531.
10. Goodwin, I. D. 1990. Snow accumulation and surface topography in the katabatic zone of eastern Wilkes Land, Antarctica. Antarct. Sci., 2(3), 235-242.
11. Goodwin, I. D. 1991. Snow-accumulation variability from seasonal surface observations and firn-core stratigraphy, eastern Wilkes Land, Antarctica. J Glaciol., 37(127), 383-387.
12. 3H) of near-surface firn from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Ann. Glaciol., 20, 121-128.
13. Hashimoto, T, T. Morimoto, Y. Ikeuchi, K. Yoshimizu, T. Torii and K. Komura. 1989. A survey of artificial radionuclides in the Antarctic. Radioisotopes, 38, 209-218.
14. Jouzel, J., M. Pourchet, C. Lorius and L. Merlivat. 1979a. Artificial tritium fallout at the South Pole. In Behaviour of tritium in the environment. Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency, 31-46. (SM 232/38.)
15. Jouzel, J., L. Merlivat, M. Pourchet and C. Lorius. 1979b. A continuous record of artificial tritium fallout at the South Pole (1954-1978). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 45(1), 188-200.
16. Jouzel, J., L. Merlivat, D. Mazaudier, M. Pourchet and C. Lorius. 1982. Natural tritium deposition over Antarctica and estimation of the mean global production rate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 9(10), 1191-1194.
17. Junge, C. C. 1963. Air chemistry and radioactivity. New York, Academic Press.
18. 239+240Pu ratios in polar glaciers. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 54(2), 239-247.
19. Koide, M., R. Michel, E. D. Goldberg, M. Herion and C. C. Langway, Jr. 1979. Depositional history of artificial radionuclides in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 44(2), 205-223.
20. - und Spalt-produkt-Konzentrationen der bodennahen Luft. Tellus, 22(4), 443-450.
21. Lambert, G., B. Ardouin, M. Nezami and G. Polian. 1966. Possibilities of using lead 216 as an atmospheric tracer. Tellus, 18(2-3), 421-426.
22. Lambert, G., B. Ardouin, J. Sanak, C. Lorius and M. Pourchet. 1977. Accumulation of snow and radioactive debris in Antarctica: a possible refined radiochronology beyond reference levels. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 118 (Symposium at Grenoble 1975 - Isotopes and Impurities in Snow and Ice), 146-158.
23. Lambert, G., B. Ardouin and A. Mesbah-Bendezu. 1983. Atmosphere to snow transfer in Antarctica. In Pruppacher, H. R., R. G. Semonin and W. G. N. Slinn, eds. Precipitation scavenging, dry deposition, and resuspension. New York, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1289-1300.
24. Lambert, G., B. Ardouin and J. Sanak. 1990. Atmospheric transport of trace elements towards Antarctica. Tellus, 42B(1), 76-82.
25. Lockhart, L.B., Jr, R.L. Patterson and A.W. Saunders, Jr. 1965. Atmospheric radioactivity in Antarctica 1959-1963. Washington, DC, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. (Report 6341.)
26. 33P in atmospheric dynamics research. J. Geophys. Res., 75(18), 3665-3667.
27. Maenhaut, W., W. H. Zoller and D. G. Coles. 1979. Radionuclides in the South Pole atmosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 84( C6), 3131-3138.
28. Martell, E. A. 1970. Transport patterns and residence times for atmospheric trace constituents versus altitude. Adv. Chem. Ser., 93, 138-157.
29. Merlivat, L., J. Jouzel, J. Robert and C. Lorius. 1977. Distribution of artificial tritium in firn samples from East Antarctica. International Association of Hydrological Sciences Publication 118 (Symposium at Grenoble 1975 - Isotopes and Impurities in Snow and Ice), 138-145.
30. 210Po profiles and aerosol residence times versus altitude. J. Geophys. Res., 78(30), 7065-7075.
31. Morgan, V. I., I. D. Goodwin, D. M. Etheridge and C. W. Wookey. 1991. Evidence from Antarctic ice cores for recent increases in snow accumulation. Nature. 354(6348), 58-60.
32. Pettre, P., J. F. Pinglot, M. Pourchet and L. Reynaud. 1986. Accumulation distribution in Terre Adèlie, Antarctica: effect of meteorological parameters. J. Glaciol., 32(112), 486-500.
33. Picciotto, E. and S. Wilgain. 1963. Fission products in Antarctic snow, a reference level for measuring accumulation. J. Geophys. Res., 68(21), 5965-5972.
34. Pinglot, J. F. and M. Pourchet. 1979. Low-level beta counting with an automatic sample changer. Nucl. Instrum. Methods, 166(3), 483-490.
35. Pinglot, J. F. and M. Pourchet. 1994. Spectrométrie gamma á très bas niveau avec anti-Compton NaI (Tl), pour l'étude des glaciers et des sédiments. CEA Note 2756, 291-296. (Journées des Spectrométrie Gamma et X 93, CEA-DAMRI, 12-14 October 1993, Paris, France.)
36. Pinglot, J. F. and M. Pourchet. 1994. Spectrométrie gamma á très bas niveau avec anti-Compton NaI (Tl), pour l'étude des glaciers et des sédiments. CEA Note 2756, 291-296. (Journées des Spectrométrie Gamma et X 93, CEA-DAMRI, 12-14 October 1993, Paris, France.)
37. Poet, S. E., H. E. Moore and E. A. Martell. 1972. Lead 210, bismuth 210, and polonium 219 in the atmosphere: accurate ratio measurements and application to aerosol residence time determination. J. Geophys. Res., 77(33), 6515-6527.
38. Pourchet, M., J. F. Pinglot and C. Lorius. 1983. Some meteeorological applications of radioactive fallout measurements in Antarctic snows. J. Geophys. Res., 88(C10), 6013-6020.
39. 10Be concentrations in Antarctic ice during the past 30,000 years. Nature, 292(5826), 825-826.
40. 10Be deposition in Antarctic ice during the last glacial period. Nature, 326(6110), 273-277.
41. 2H in polar ice cores as a probe of the solar variability's influence on climate. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, Ser. A. 330 (1615), 463-470.
42. Rama. 1963. Atmospheric circulation from observations of natural radioactivity. J. Geophys. Res., 68(13), 3861-3866.
43. Reiter, E. R. 1978. Atmospheric transport processes (Pt-4): radioactive tracers. Springfield, VA, U.S. Department of Energy. Technical Information Center. (D.O.E. Critical Review Series.)
44. 241Am in the Antarctic Peninsula area. J. Environ. Radioactivity, 24, 235-251.
45. Sanak, J. 1983. Contribution à l'étude du transport des aérosols d'origine continentale vers l'Antarctique. (Thèse de doctorat, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.)
46. Stanford, J. L. 1973. Possible sink for stratospheric water at the winter Antarctic pole. J. Atmos. Sci., 30, 1431-1436.
47. Taylor, C. B. 1968. A comparison of tritium and strontium-90 fallout in the Southern Hemisphere. Tellus, 20(4), 559-576.
48. Telegadas, K. 1972. Atmospheric radioactivity along the HASL ground-level sampling network, 1968 to mid-1970, as an indicator of tropospheric and stratospheric sources. J. Geophys. Res., 77(6), 1004-1011.
49. Volchok, H. L., V. T. Bowen, T. R. Folson, W. S. Broecker, E. A. Schwart and G. S. Bien. 1971. Oceanic distribution of radionuclides from nuclear explosions. In Radioactivity in the marine environment. Washington, DC, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 42-89.
50. Wilgain, S., E. Picciotto and W. de Breuck. 1965. Strontium 90 fallout in Antarctica. J. Geophys. Res., 70(24), 6023-6032.
51. Young, N. W, M. Pourchet, V. M. Kotlyakov, P. A. Korolev and M. B. Dyurgerov. 1982. Accumulation distribution in the IAGP area, Antarctica: 90° E-150° E. Ann. Glaciol., 3, 333-338.