Continuous Plutonium measurements from an array of Arctic and Antarctic ice cores
Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing (NWT) resulted in the injection of plutonium (Pu) into the atmosphere and subsequent global deposition. We present a new method for continuous semi-quantitative measurement of 239Pu in ice cores, which was used to develop annual records of fallout from NWT in ten...
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ftdatacite:10.18739/a2zg6g73b 2023-05-15T14:04:20+02:00 Continuous Plutonium measurements from an array of Arctic and Antarctic ice cores Arienzo, Monica 2016 text/xml https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2zg6g73b https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2ZG6G73B en eng NSF Arctic Data Center ANS dataset Dataset 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.18739/a2zg6g73b 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing (NWT) resulted in the injection of plutonium (Pu) into the atmosphere and subsequent global deposition. We present a new method for continuous semi-quantitative measurement of 239Pu in ice cores, which was used to develop annual records of fallout from NWT in ten ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. The 239Pu was measured directly using an Inductively Coupled Plasma - Sector Field Mass Spectrometer, thereby reducing analysis time and increasing depth-resolution with respect to previous methods. To validate this method, we compared our one year averaged results to published 239Pu records and other records of NWT. The 239Pu profiles from four Arctic ice cores reflected global trends in NWT and were in agreement with discrete Pu profiles from lower latitude ice cores. The 239Pu measurements in the Antarctic ice cores tracked low latitude NWT, consistent with previously published discrete records from Antarctica. Advantages of the continuous 239Pu measurement method are (1) reduced sample preparation and analysis time; (2) no requirement for additional ice samples for NWT fallout determinations; (3) measurements are exactly co-registered with all other chemical, elemental, isotopic, and gas measurements from the continuous analytical system; and (4) the long half-life means the 239Pu record is stable through time. Dataset Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Greenland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic Arctic Greenland The Antarctic |
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Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing (NWT) resulted in the injection of plutonium (Pu) into the atmosphere and subsequent global deposition. We present a new method for continuous semi-quantitative measurement of 239Pu in ice cores, which was used to develop annual records of fallout from NWT in ten ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. The 239Pu was measured directly using an Inductively Coupled Plasma - Sector Field Mass Spectrometer, thereby reducing analysis time and increasing depth-resolution with respect to previous methods. To validate this method, we compared our one year averaged results to published 239Pu records and other records of NWT. The 239Pu profiles from four Arctic ice cores reflected global trends in NWT and were in agreement with discrete Pu profiles from lower latitude ice cores. The 239Pu measurements in the Antarctic ice cores tracked low latitude NWT, consistent with previously published discrete records from Antarctica. Advantages of the continuous 239Pu measurement method are (1) reduced sample preparation and analysis time; (2) no requirement for additional ice samples for NWT fallout determinations; (3) measurements are exactly co-registered with all other chemical, elemental, isotopic, and gas measurements from the continuous analytical system; and (4) the long half-life means the 239Pu record is stable through time. |
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Continuous Plutonium measurements from an array of Arctic and Antarctic ice cores |
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Continuous Plutonium measurements from an array of Arctic and Antarctic ice cores |
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Continuous Plutonium measurements from an array of Arctic and Antarctic ice cores |
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Continuous Plutonium measurements from an array of Arctic and Antarctic ice cores |
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Continuous Plutonium measurements from an array of Arctic and Antarctic ice cores |
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continuous plutonium measurements from an array of arctic and antarctic ice cores |
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NSF Arctic Data Center |
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