Temporal and spatial trends in the distribution of 137Cs in surface waters of Northern European Seas - A record of 40 years of investigations

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 17-21, 2003, Pages 2785-2801

  Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Bailly Du Bois, Pascal ^b   Kershaw, Peter J ^c   Nies, Hartmut ^d   Scotto, Philippe ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d FEDERAL MARITIME AND HYDROGRAPHIC AGENCY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SURFACE WATERS;

TIME SERIES DATA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER;

(NORTHEAST); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141595050     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00148-6     Document Type: Article

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