Rates of particle scavenging and particulate organic carbon export estimated using 234Th as a tracer in the subtropical and equatorial Atlantic Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 885-906

  Charette, Matthew A ^a,b   Moran, S Bradley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SIMULATION MODEL;

PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SCAVENGING; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033043307     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(99)00006-5     Document Type: Article

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