@article{35976e87fd6e4d198cdc3f23de73d2e5,
title = "Halocarbon ratio and tritium/3He dating of water masses in the Nansen Basin, Arctic Ocean",
abstract = "Three separate tracer ratio-based water mass ages (CCl4/F11, tritium/3 He and F11/F12) are calculated for the 1987 oceanographic section by R.V. Polarstern across the Nansen Basin, Arctic Ocean. The CCl4/F11 ratio ages are shown to be in good agreement with the apparent tritium/3He ages throughout the age range studied (5\2-30 years) and with F11/F12 ages in the age range for which such comparisons can be made (16\2-30 years). A simple box model (integrated to 1987) shows that for CC14/F11 and tritium/3He ages less than 12 years, the apparent ages should be close to the mean age of the water sampled. The distribution of the tracer ages is discussed with respect to the circulation of water masses in the Nansen Basin.",
author = "Wallace, {D. W.R.} and P. Schlosser and M. Krysell and G. B{\"o}nisch",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements--We would like to thank the officers and crew of R.V. Polarstern for their assistance during the Nansen Basin cruise. J6rn Thiede, Chief Scientist, provided ship time for the extensive tracer sample collection program. The assistance and advice of the following Arktis IV/3 participants is gratefully acknowledged: L. Anderson, E. P, Jones, P. Koltermann, B. Kromer, J. Swift and F. Zemlyak. In addition, we would like to thank E. Fogelqvist for providing advice and the GC for the CC14 analyses, R. Bayer for his advice and assistance in the mass spectrometric tritium measurements and W. Smethie for his assistance with data interpretation. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (G.B., P.S.), the Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract no. DE-AC02-76CH0016 (D.W.), the Office of Naval Research under Contract no. N00014-90-J-1362 (P.S.) and the Swedish Natural Science Research Council (M.K.). L-DGO contribution no. 4950.",
year = "1992",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/S0198-0149(06)80015-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "39",
pages = "S435--S458",
journal = "Deep Sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers",
issn = "0198-0149",
publisher = "Pergamon Press Ltd.",
number = "2 PART 1",
}