Radiocarbon carbon residence time

Gaudinski, J. B.,Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A., and Zheng, S. H. (2000). Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest Radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes. Bio geochemistry 51(1), 33-69. 

The natural distribution of radiocarbon Mixing rates in the sea and residence times of carbon and water. In Earth Science and Meteoritics, S. 103—114. Ed. Geiss, J. and E. D. Goldberg. Amsterdam North-Hol-land Publ. Comp. 1963. 

The turnover time and fluxes of DOC into the ocean are obtained by comparing the reservoir size and radiocarbon age. The ocean inventory of DOC is —680 Gt, and nearly all of this carbon resides in the deep sea, where concentration profiles and radiocarbon values are constant with depth. DOC ages by —1,000 yr as deep seawater moves from the Atlantic to the Pacific Basin, but even in the Atlantic, DOC radiocarbon values are significantly depleted relative to dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) (Druffel et al., 1992). DOC persists in seawater through several ocean... 

Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes. Biogeochemistry (Dordrecht) 51(1), 33-69. 

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