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Evaluating the transport of surface seawater from 1956 to 2021 using 137Cs deposited in the global ocean as a chemical tracer
Yayoi Inomata
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan
Michio Aoyama
Center for Research in Isotopes and Environmental Dynamics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8572, Japan
deceased, September 2022
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Short summary
The behavior of 137Cs in surface seawater in the global ocean was analyzed by using the HAMGlobal2021 database. Approximately 32 % of 137Cs existed in the surface seawater in 1970. The 137Cs released into the North Pacific Ocean by large-scale nuclear weapons tests was transported to the Indian Ocean and then the Atlantic Ocean on a 4–5 decadal timescale, whereas 137Cs released from nuclear reprocessing plants was transported northward to the Arctic Ocean on a decadal scale.
The behavior of 137Cs in surface seawater in the global ocean was analyzed by using the...
