Seasonal variation in the 228Ra/226Ra ratio of coastal water within the Sea of Japan: Implications for the origin and circulation patterns of the Tsushima Coastal Branch Current

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 559-568

  Inoue, M ^a   Tanaka, K ^a   Kofuji, H ^b   Nakano, Y ^a   Komura, K ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Marine Science Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal waters; Current profiles; Low background spectrometry; Mixing ratio; Radium isotopes; Sea of Japan; Seasonal variations

Indexed keywords

CESIUM ISOTOPE; COASTAL CURRENT; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL WATER; DIFFUSION; MIXING RATIO; RADIUM ISOTOPE; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETRY; WATER MASS;

ASIA; EAST CHINA SEA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KOREA STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; TSUSHIMA STRAIT;

EID: 36649036354     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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