The distribution of bomb radiocarbon in the ocean

Water column inventories are calculated for bomb radiocarbon at all the stations occupied during the GEOSECS and NORPAX expeditions and for the available TTO stations. The pattern of global inventories obtained in this way suggests that a sizable portion of the bomb radiocarbon that entered the Anta...

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Published in:Journal of Geophysical Research
Main Authors: Broecker, W. S., Peng, T.-H., Ostlund, G., Stuiver, M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: AGU 1985
Subjects:
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Pacific
Antarc*
Online Access:https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/33108/
https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/33108/1/scan_2016-06-15_14-25-15r.1.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1029/JC090iC04p06953
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Summary:Water column inventories are calculated for bomb radiocarbon at all the stations occupied during the GEOSECS and NORPAX expeditions and for the available TTO stations. The pattern of global inventories obtained in this way suggests that a sizable portion of the bomb radiocarbon that entered the Antarctic, the northern Pacific, and the tropical ocean has been transported to the adjacent temperate zones. A strategy for utilizing these inventory anomalies as constraints on global ocean circulation models is presented. Essential to this strategy are the improvement of our knowledge of the pattern of wind speed over the ocean, the establishment of the wind speed dependence of the rate of gas exchange between the atmosphere and sea, and the continued mapping of the distribution of bomb-produced radiocarbon in the sea.

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