Tracer-derived transit time of the waters in the eastern Nordic Seas

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 332-340

  Gao, Yongqi ^a,b,c   Drange, Helge ^a,b,c,d   Bentsen, Mats ^a,b   Johannessen, Olam ^a,d,e  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Nansen Zhu International Research Centre   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e Mohn Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SELLAFIELD; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 28244500545     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2005.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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