Effects of flow rates and composition of the filter, and decay/ingrowth correction factors involved with the determination of in situ particulate 210Po and 210Pb in seawater

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 11, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages 126-138

  Baskaran, Mark ^a   Church, Thomas ^b   Hong, Gi ^a,c   Kumar, Anupam ^a   Qiang, Ma ^a,d   Choi, Hiu ^b   Rigaud, Sylvain ^b   Maiti, Kanchan ^e  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^d XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84879064384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2013.11.126     Document Type: Article

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