Temporally integrated estimate of the Indonesian throughflow using tritium

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Jean Baptiste, P ^a   Jenkins, W J ^b   Dutay, J C ^a   Fourre E ^a   Leboucher, V ^a,c   Fieux, M ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

4223 Oceanography: General: Descriptive and regional oceanography; 4825 Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Geochemistry; 4860 Oceanography: Biological and Chemical: Radioactivity and radioisotopes; 9340 Information Related to Geographic Region: Indian Ocean; 9355 Information Related to Geographic Region: Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOACTIVITY; TRITIUM; WATER; BUDGET CONTROL; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE);

RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; THROUGHFLOW; WATER COLUMN;

GEOPHYSICS; TRITIUM;

HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; THROUGHFLOW; TRACER; TRITIUM; WATER COLUMN;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW; INTEGRATED TRANSPORT; INTERANNUAL; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; TRANSIT TIME; TRITIUM MEASUREMENTS; WATER COLUMNS;

EID: 13244286503     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020854     Document Type: Article

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