90Sr, 137Cs and 239,240Pu concentration surface water time series in the Pacific and Indian Oceans - WOMARS results

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-87

  Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Aarkrog, Asker ^b   Buesseler, Ken O ^c   Delfanti, Roberta ^d   Hirose, Katsumi ^e   Hong, Gi Hoon ^f   Ito, Toshimichi ^a,j   Livingston, Hugh D ^a   Nies, Hartmut ^g   Noshkin, Victor E ^h   Shima, Shigeki ⁱ   Togawa, Orihiko ^a,j  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d ENEA Marine Environment Research Centre   (Italy)

^e METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^f Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^g FEDERAL MARITIME AND HYDROGRAPHIC AGENCY   (Germany)

^h LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ Japan Marine Science Foundation   (Japan)

^j JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Caesium 137; Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean; Plutonium 239,240; Radionuclides; Southern Ocean; Strontium 90; Surface water; Time series

Indexed keywords

CESIUM COMPOUNDS; PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

FALLOUT REMOVAL RATES; HALF-LIVES; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION;

SURFACE WATERS;

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 90; SURFACE WATER; CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; SEA WATER; STRONTIUM;

MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; ATOMIC WARFARE; GEOGRAPHY; HALF LIFE TIME; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 20044386874     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2004.12.003     Document Type: Article

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