137Cs water profiles in the South Indian Ocean - An evidence for accumulation of pollutants in the subtropical gyre

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 89, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 17-30

  Povinec, P P ^a,g   Aoyama, M ^b   Fukasawa, M ^c   Hirose, K ^b,f   Komura, K ^d   Sanchez Cabeza, J A ^e,h   Gastaud, J ^e   Jeskovsky M ^a   Levy, I ^e   Sykora I ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^f SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Marine Environment Laboratories   (Monaco)

^h UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ANTHROPOGENIC POLLUTANTS; GLOBAL FALLOUT; HIGH DENSITY; INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH PACIFIC; RESIDENCE TIME; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TIME-SCALES; WATER COLUMNS; WATER DEPTH; WATER PROFILES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; POLLUTION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

CESIUM;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOACCUMULATION; GYRE; LATITUDE; POLLUTANT; RESERVOIR; SEAWATER; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURFACE WATER; WATER COLUMN; WATER DEPTH;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79954938982     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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