Dataset: Water column Th-234 activities from 4-liter water samples at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017

ValidatedFinal no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.765859.1Version 1 (2019-05-02)Dataset Type:Cruise Results

Principal Investigator: Kenneth O. Buesseler (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator: Margaret L. Estapa (Skidmore College)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Collaborative Research: Are all traps created equal? A multi-method assessment of the collection and detection of sinking particles in the ocean (Are Traps Equal)

Abstract

Water column Th-234 activities from 4-liter water samples at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017.

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Water column Th-234 activities from water samples at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017.

Related datasets collected during the same cruise:
In-situ pump: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/765850
Sediment trap fluxes: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/765835

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Results
Owens, S. A., Buesseler, K. O., & Sims, K. W. W. (2011). Re-evaluating the 238U-salinity relationship in seawater: Implications for the 238U–234Th disequilibrium method. Marine Chemistry, 127(1-4), 31–39. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2011.07.005
Methods
Buesseler, K. O., Pike, S., Maiti, K., Lamborg, C. H., Siegel, D. A., & Trull, T. W. (2009). Thorium-234 as a tracer of spatial, temporal and vertical variability in particle flux in the North Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 56(7), 1143–1167. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.04.001

Buesseler, K., Estapa, M. (2019) Water column Th-234 activities from 4-liter water samples at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) site in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean during RRS Discovery cruise DY077 in April of 2017. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2019-05-02 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.765859.1 [access date]

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