Carbon Isotope constraints on vertical mixing and air-sea CO2 exchange.

Fallon, Stewart; Guilderson, Thomas; Caldeira, Ken

Carbon Isotope constraints on vertical mixing and air-sea CO2 exchange.

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2003

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Fallon, Stewart

Guilderson, Thomas

Caldeira, Ken

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American Geophysical Union

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We have developed a ∼45 year carbon isotope record (δ13C, Δ14C) from the coralline sponge Acanthochaetetes wellsi from Vanuatu in an effort to examine air-sea CO2 exchange using both the δ13C Suess effect and the bomb-14C transient. From 1953 to 1999

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Keywords: Carbon dioxide; Diffusion; Isotopes; Oceanography; Air sea exchange rates; Box diffusion models; Geophysics; air-sea interaction; biogeochemical cycle; carbon dioxide; emission; mixing; sponge; Melanesia; Pacific islands; Pacific Ocean; Vanuatu

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/24016

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Geophysical Research Letters

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