Cesium, iodine and tritium in NW Pacific waters-a comparison of the Fukushima impact with global fallout

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5481-5496

  Povinec, P P ^a   Aoyama, M ^b   Biddulph, D ^c   Breier, R ^a   Buesseler, K ^d   Chang, C C ^c,e   Golser, R ^f   Hou, X L ^g   Jeskovsky M ^a   Jull, A J T ^c,e,h   Kaizer, J ^a   Nakano, M ⁱ   Nies, H ^j   Palcsu, L ^h   Papp, L ^h   Pham, M K ^j   Steier, P ^f   Zhang, L Y ^g  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^h INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH ATOMKI   (Hungary)

ⁱ JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^j INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM ISOTOPE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IODINE; MARINE POLLUTION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUCLEAR WEAPON; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE; SURFACE WATER; TRITIUM; WATER COLUMN; WATER MASS;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84875764198     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-5481-2013     Document Type: Article

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