Table 1: Technetium-99 in seawater in the West Spitsbergen Current and adjacent areas, sorted from east to west ...

• Main Authors: Gerland, Sebastian, Lind, Bjørn, Dowdall, Mark, Karcher, Michael J, Kolstad, Anne Kathrine
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Event label; Area/locality; Date/Time of event; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; DEPTH, water; Technetium-99; Technetium-99, standard deviation; CTD/Rosette; Giant water sampler; Water sample; ARK-XVI/2; Polarstern; Arctic Ocean; East Greenland; east greenland current; Fram Strait; Greenland; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Spitzbergen; Svalbard; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.771447; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.771447

99Tc levels were measured in seawater samples collected between 2000 and 2002 in the West Spitsbergen Current (WSC) and along the western coast of Svalbard or Spitzbergen and compared with available oceanographic 3-D modelling results for the late 1990s. Additional data from related regions are also presented in order to support the data interpretation. The seawater in the Arctic fjord Kongsfjorden on the western coast of Svalbard is influenced by the WSC, as shown by the 99Tc levels in surface water. By means of the WSC, 99Tc reaches the Eastern Fram Strait, where one branch of the WSC turns west into the East Greenland Current (EGC), and another branch continues northwards into the Arctic Ocean. Surface seawater collected in the central part of the WSC during a cruise on board the R/V "Polarstern" in the summer of 2000, showed higher levels of 99Tc than samples measured in Kongsfjorden in the spring of 2000. However, all levels measured in surface water are of the same order of magnitude. Data from ... : Supplement to: Gerland, Sebastian; Lind, Bjørn; Dowdall, Mark; Karcher, Michael J; Kolstad, Anne Kathrine (2003): 99Tc in seawater in the West Spitsbergen Current and adjacent areas. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 69(1-2), 119-127 ...