Twenty seawater profiles and twenty core-top 231-protactinium and 230-thorium analyses were realised by Ng and colleagues along five depth transects across the northern tropical Atlantic open ocean.
Jan / 18 / 2021
Thorium
Isopycnal mixing controls protactinium and thorium distributions in the Pacific Southern Ocean
Pavia and co-workers determined the physical and chemical speciation as well as the vertical distribution of Protactinium-231 and Thorium-230 at 12 stations across the Southern Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current…
Dec / 13 / 2020
Surface water trace element and isotope data challenge dust flux models
Using measurements of dissolved and particulate thorium-230 and thorium-232 along a section across the South Pacific, authors estimated the dust flux over this remote area
Nov / 05 / 2020
Particulate fluxes and circulation in a changing Arctic Ocean: tracer data and modeling
A complete review of published and new water column profiles of thorium-230 (230Th) and protactinium-231 (231Pa) concentrations and neodymium (Nd) isotopic compositions collected in the Amerasian Basin of the Arctic […]
Mar / 27 / 2020
South Pacific particulate organic carbon fate challenges Martin’s Law
Joint Science Highlight with US-Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB). Carbon storage in the ocean is sensitive to the depths at which particulate organic carbon (POC) is respired back to CO2 […]
May / 16 / 2019
Using the three thorium isotope toolbox to probe the particle dynamic within an East Pacific Rise hydrothermal plume
The insoluble radiogenic isotopes of thorium (Th) are produced at a known rate in the water column via the decay of soluble uranium (234Th, 230Th) and radium (228Th) isotopes. These […]
Feb / 07 / 2019
Important spatial variation of the Particulate Organic Carbon export along the GEOVIDE section in the North Atlantic Ocean
Based on the thorium-234 (234Th) isotopes and the Particulate Organic Carbon/Thorium (POC/Th) ratios measured in small and large particles collected at 11 stations along the GEOVIDE section (GA01) using in […]
Dec / 12 / 2018
More realistic oceanic particle field improved the thorium-230 and protactinium-231 modeling
Thorium-230 (230Th) and protactinium-231 (231Pa) are two geochemical tracers extensively used for investigating particle transport in the ocean and reconstructing past ocean circulation. A key feature in reproducing their distributions by […]
Dec / 10 / 2018
Ever wonder how long your favourite element remains in the ocean before it’s gone again?
This timeframe, sometimes called a residence time, ranges from decades for the most reactive trace elements to millions of years for the most unreactive elements such as the major components […]
Nov / 15 / 2018