Transport of North Pacific 137Cs labeled waters to the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 89, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 31-37

  Sanchez Cabeza, J A ^a,b,c   Levy, I ^c   Gastaud, J ^c   Eriksson, M ^c   Osvath, I ^c   Aoyama, M ^d   Povinec, P P ^e   Komura, K ^f  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^d METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^f KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS;

BENGUELA CURRENTS; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PROJECT PARTNERS; WATER CONCENTRATIONS; WATER MASS TRANSPORT; WESTERN INDIAN OCEANS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79954827809     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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