The investigation on particulate organic carbon fluxes with disequilibria between thorium-234 and uranium-238 in the Prydz Bay, the Southern Ocean

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摘要 Dissolvedandparticulatethorium-234,particulateorganiccarbonintheupper150mofwatercolumnsfromfivestationsinthePrydzBay,theSouthernOceanweredeterminedduringthe22ndChineseNationalAntarcticResearchExpedition(fromNovember2005toMarch2006).Thedisequilibriabetweenthorium-234anditsparenturanium-238inupperlayerwasusedtoderivetheaveragedresidencetimeofthorium-234,whichdecreasedalongwiththelatitudetothesouthandaminimumvalue,1~8dforparticulatethorium-234and29~48dfordissolvedthorium-234,appearedatthemediumlatitudestation,andtheexportfluxesofthorium-234werecalculatedtooandamaximumvalue,0.35~0.63Bq/(m3·d)fortheparticulatethorium-234and0.44~0.65Bq/(m3·d)forthedissolvedthorium-234,appearedatthesamestation.Theexportfluxesofparticulateorganiccarbonatdifferentwatercolumnswerederivedbytwomethodswithirreversiblescavengingmodel,andtheaveragedvalueswere104.7mmol/(m2·d)(Emethod)and120.6mmol/(m2·d)(Bmethod),respectively,indicatingthatarelativelyhighnewproductionwouldexistinsummerinthePrydzBaywhereitwillplayapotentialsignificantroleinsequesteringtheabsorptionCO2todeeperocean.
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出处 《海洋学报:英文版》 2008年2期
出版日期 2008年02月12日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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