Tritium/He-3 and O-18 Measurements During the ACSYS Expedition 1996

• Main Author: Schlosser, Peter
• Other Authors: LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY PALISADES NY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Isotopes; *OCEAN MODELS; *TRACER STUDIES; OXYGEN; HELIUM; EURASIA; RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES; TRITIUM; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; ACSYS(ARCTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM STUDY); EURASIAN BASIN; TRANSPOLAR DRIFT; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Fram Strait
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA377474; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA377474

This proposal requested half the funds required for collection, measurement, and interpretation of about 500 tritium/He-3 and 500 O-18 samples in the framework of the Swedish/German ACSYS (Arctic Climate System Study) cruise to the eastern Arctic Ocean in 1996. The work was focused on closing the existing tracer data gap in the eastern part of the Eurasian Basin. Coverage of this part of the Arctic Ocean will provide the link between the tracer distributions observed just north of Fram Strait and in the central Eurasian Basin along about 30 deg. E and the region where shelf waters enter the Transpolar Drift.