Radiocarbon as a diagnostic tracer in ocean and carbon cycle modeling

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 887-902

  Guilderson, Thomas P ^a,b   Caldeira, Kenneth ^a   Duffy, Philip B ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; FALLOUT; GLOBAL OCEAN; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIONUCLIDE; TRACER;

EID: 0033766148     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GB001192     Document Type: Article

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