An estimate of the global distribution of radon emissions from the ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Schery, S D ^a   Huang, S ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

0312 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Air sea constituent fluxes (3339, 4504); 1610 Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 4860 Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Radioactivity and radioisotopes

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATOLOGY; FLUXES; GAS EMISSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADON; FLUX DENSITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADON EMISSIONS;

RADON;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GLOBAL OCEAN; RADON;

EID: 11044230911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021051     Document Type: Article

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