Temporal variations in plutonium and americium inventories and their relation to vertical transport in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 446-458

  Fowler, Scott W ^a   Noshkin, Victor E ^a   Jacques La, Rosa ^a,b   Gastaud, Janine ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; PLUTONIUM; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0034058989     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0446     Document Type: Article

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