Utility of dissolved barium in distinguishing North American from Eurasian runoff in the Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Marine Chemistry
• Main Authors: Roeske, T., Bauch, Dorothea, Rutgers V.D. Loeff, M., Rabe, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Laptev Sea; Makarov Basin; Mendeleyev; Pacific; The Ark; Fram Strait; Kara-Laptev; laptev; makarov basin; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/14072/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/14072/1/Roeske.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2012.01.007

Dissolved barium has been shown to have the potential to distinguish Eurasian from North American (NA) river runoff. As part of the ARK-XXII/2 Polarstern expedition in summer 2007, Ba was analyzed in the Barents, Kara, Laptev seas, and the Eurasian Basins as well as the Makarov Basin up to the Alpha...