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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2639-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2639-2022
Data description paper
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09 Jun 2022
Data description paper |  | 09 Jun 2022

Revisiting five decades of 234Th data: a comprehensive global oceanic compilation

Elena Ceballos-Romero, Ken O. Buesseler, and María Villa-Alfageme

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Thorium-234 is widely used for studying the removal rate of material on sinking particles from the upper ocean and for determining the downward flux of carbon. In this study, we present a compilation of the 50 years of 234Th measurements in the ocean and provide a broad overview of the character of the datasets. This provides a valuable resource useful to better understand and quantify how the contemporary oceanic carbon uptake functions and how it will change in future.
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