Tracers in oceanography

The Use of U-Th Series Radionuclides and Transient Tracers in Oceanography an Overview... 

Long-lived Isotopic Tracers in Oceanography, Paleoceanography, and Ice-sheet Dynamics... 

This chapter has summarized the basis for the application of long-lived isotopic tracers in oceanography and paleoceanography, focusing on neodymium isotopes in the oceans. It also summarized the current state of knowledge on the applications of these tracers to delineate the... 

This article is concerned primarily with nuclides that are useful as tracers in oceanography, and therefore shorter-lived nuclides have been excluded from Table 1. Since cosmic ray intensity is appreciably reduced at sea level due to nuclear interactions in the atmosphere isotope production rates (per gram target element per second), in surficial materials, are appreciably smaller than in the atmosphere. Therefore, nuclides, which can be produced in nuclear interactions with the major elements present in the atmosphere, N and O, have their principal source in the atmosphere. The next most abundant element, Ar, in the atmosphere occurs at an abundance of only... 

Tracers in Oceanography Why We Need Them and What We Learn From Them... 

Koczy, F. F. 1%5. Radioactive tracers in oceanography Natural radionuclides in the ocean. Int. Union Geodesy Geophys. Monogr. 20 1-9. 

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