Transport and scavenging of Pu in surface waters of the Southern Hemisphere Oceans

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 89, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 92-100

  Gastaud, J ^a   Povinec, P P ^a,b   Aoyama, M ^c   Hirose, K ^c,f   Sanchez Cabeza, J A ^a,d   Levy, I ^a   Roos, P ^e   Eriksson, M ^a   Bosc, E ^a   Rezzoug, S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENTS; CURRENT SYSTEM; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDIAN OCEAN; LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANIC BASIN; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SEAWATER SAMPLES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TRACER STUDY; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CESIUM; CHLOROPHYLL; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PLUTONIUM; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GYRE; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; SAMPLING; SEAWATER; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 79954568874     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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