Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5545-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5545-2018
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18 Sep 2018
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Tracing water masses with 129I and 236U in the subpolar North Atlantic along the GEOTRACES GA01 section

Maxi Castrillejo, Núria Casacuberta, Marcus Christl, Christof Vockenhuber, Hans-Arno Synal, Maribel I. García-Ibáñez, Pascale Lherminier, Géraldine Sarthou, Jordi Garcia-Orellana, and Pere Masqué

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (27 Jul 2018) by Catherine Jeandel
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The investigation of water mass transport pathways and timescales is important to understand the global ocean circulation. Following earlier studies, we use artificial radionuclides introduced to the oceans in the 1950s to investigate the water transport in the subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA). For the first time, we combine measurements of the long-lived iodine-129 and uranium-236 to confirm earlier findings/hypotheses and to better understand shallow and deep ventilation processes in the SPNA.
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