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Radium-228-derived ocean mixing and trace element inputs in the South Atlantic
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Walter Geibert
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
E. Malcolm S. Woodward
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
Neil J. Wyatt
Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Oceanography Centre,
Southampton, UK
Maeve C. Lohan
Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Oceanography Centre,
Southampton, UK
Eric P. Achterberg
Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Oceanography Centre,
Southampton, UK
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
Gideon M. Henderson
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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The South Atlantic near 40° S is one of the high-productivity and most dynamic nutrient regions in the oceans, but the sources and fluxes of trace elements (TEs) to this region remain unclear. This study investigates seawater Ra-228 and provides important constraints on ocean mixing and dissolved TE fluxes to this region. Vertical mixing is a more important source than aeolian or shelf inputs in this region, but particulate or winter deep-mixing inputs may be required to balance the TE budgets.
The South Atlantic near 40° S is one of the high-productivity and most dynamic nutrient regions...
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