Plutonium and 137Cs in surface water of the South Pacific Ocean

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 381, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 243-255

  Hirose, K ^a,b   Aoyama, M ^a   Fukasawa, M ^c   Kim, C S ^d   Komura, K ^a,b   Povinec, P P ^e   Sanchez Cabeza, J A ^f  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS)   (South Korea)

^e Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^f INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

137Cs; 239,240Pu 137Cs activity ratio; Nutrients; Plutonium; South Pacific; Temporal change

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CESIUM; NUTRIENTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

PLUTONIUM;

CESIUM 137; PHOSPHATE; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; SILICATE; SURFACE WATER; CESIUM; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CESIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GYRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLUTONIUM; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEAWATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NUTRIENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARAMETER; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEA POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; RADIATION MONITORING; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); TASMAN SEA;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 34249821352     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.03.022     Document Type: Article

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