Predicted net efflux of radiocarbon from the ocean and increase in atmospheric radiocarbon content

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3811-3814

  Caldeira, Ken ^a   Rau, Greg H ^a,b   Duffy, Philip B ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COMBUSTION; FOSSIL FUELS; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOSPHERICS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); DETONATION; FUELS;

BIOSPHERE; RADIOCARBON;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOMB RADIOCARBON; BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; FOSSIL FUEL BURNING; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; LAND BIOSPHERE; LAND-USE CHANGE; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE;

EID: 0032179398     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900010     Document Type: Article

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