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Water column dissolved radium-226 and radium-228 from Leg 2 (Hilo, HI to Papeete, French Polynesia) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1815) on R/V Roger Revelle from October to November 2018. In this dataset version (v3), the radium-226 data have been updated from the previous version of the dataset.
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Water column dissolved radium-226 and radium-228 from Leg 1 (Seattle, WA to Hilo, HI) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1814) on R/V Roger Revelle from September to October 2018
Water column dissolved radium-226 and radium-228 from Leg 1 (Seattle, WA to Hilo, HI) of the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (PMT) cruise (GP15, RR1814) on R/V Roger Revelle from September to October 2018. In this dataset version (v3), the radium-226 data have been updated from the previous version of the dataset.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1736277
- PAR ID:
- 10511640
- Publisher / Repository:
- Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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