An improved method for estimating water-mass ventilation age from radiocarbon data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 367-378

  DeVries, Tim ^a   Primeau, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glacial interglacial; Ocean Drilling Program; Radiocarbon; Site 887; Transit time distribution; Ventilation age

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; DEGLACIATIONS; DIFFUSIVE MIXING; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; EXISTING METHOD; HOLOCENES; IMPROVED METHODS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MODEL PARAMETERS; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; PARAMETERIZED; RADIOCARBON DATA; SEDIMENT CORE; TIME DEPENDENCE; TRANSIT-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER MASS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

VENTILATION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 77953712543     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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