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WOCE Pacific Ocean Radiocarbon Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Robert M. Key
Robert M. Key*
Affiliation:
Ocean Tracer Laboratory, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08610 USA
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Fieldwork for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) radiocarbon program was recently completed. Ca. 9000 samples were collected for analysis using both conventional β-counting techniques and the newer AMS technique. The mean uncertainty for the β analyses is 3‰; for AMS analyses, ca. 4.5‰.

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Type
14C Cycling and the Oceans
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , 1996 , pp. 415 - 423
Copyright
Copyright © the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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