Early results from the ANSTO/NIWA 14C of atmospheric methane program

• Main Authors: Smith, A, Brailsford, G, Yang, B, Bromley, T, Martin, R
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 12th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-12) 2012
• Subjects: Methane; Sample preparation; Meteorology; Graphitization; Furnaaces; Cesium; Antarctic; Arrival Heights; Pacific; Recess; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/4373; http://www.gns.cri.nz/ams12/

development and proving of the laser heated microfurnace we have used it to prepare 45 samples of ~ 16 μg of carbon. These comprised CO2, derived from atmospheric methane, frozen back into glass breakseals following measurement for δ13C at NIWA. There were three sample sets: 15 from Baring Head, NZ...