Closing the Global Marine 226Ra Budget Reveals the Biological Pump as a Dominant Removal Flux in the Upper Ocean

Abstract Radium isotopes are powerful proxies in oceanography and hydrology. Radium mass balance models, including assessments of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), often overlook particle scavenging (PS) as a pathway for dissolved radium removal from the world ocean. Here, we build a global oce...

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Main Authors: Bochao Xu, M. Bayani Cardenas, Isaac R. Santos, William C. Burnett, Matthew A. Charette, Valentí Rodellas, Sanzhong Li, Ergang Lian, Zhigang Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-06-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098087
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