Radionuclides in Arctic sea ice: Tracers of sources, fates and ice transit time scales

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1289-1310

  Masque P ^a   Cochran, J K ^b   Hirschberg, D J ^b   Dethleff, D ^c   Hebbeln, D ^d   Winkler, A ^e   Pfirman, S ^f  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e Columbia University ^*  (Germany)

^f Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

210Pb; 7Be; Fram Strait; Pu isotopes; Radionuclides; Sea ice; Sedimentation; Transit times

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC; ATOMIC WEAPONS; CHEMICAL SPECIES; FRAM STRAIT; TRANSIT TIMES;

ABLATION; CHRONOMETERS; FLUXES; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; PLUTONIUM; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; TROPOSPHERE;

RADIOISOTOPES;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; FALLOUT; LEAD ISOTOPE; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; SCAVENGING (CHEMISTRY); SEA ICE; SEDIMENT TRAP; SEDIMENTATION; TRACER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; EAST SIBERIAN SEA; FRAM STRAIT; LAPTEV SEA;

EID: 34447621747     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.04.016     Document Type: Article

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