Radium in the Arctic Ocean - the 2015 GEOTRACES missions

• Main Authors: Rutgers v. d. Loeff, Michiel, Kipp, Lauren, Bauch, Dorothea, Charkin, Alexander N.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Bering Strait
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45353/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51632

The Arctic Ocean is a small ocean basin surrounded by wide and shallow shelves receiving large river inputs. The radium quartet are four tracers of contact with sediments that give information on transport processes ranging in time scale from days to hundreds of years. 228Ra (5.8 y halflife) is a go...