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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. In this dataset version (v3), the radium-226 data have been updated from the previous version of the dataset.
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Measurements of the dissolved isotope radium-226 from samples collected on the US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE cruise on R/V Roger Revelle (RR2214) in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans from December 2022 to January 2023
This dataset includes measurements of the dissolved isotope radium-226 in the South Pacific and Southern Ocean. Samples were collected on the US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE cruise (Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile) on R/V Roger Revelle from December 2022 to January 2023. Radium-223, radium-224, and radium-228 data will be made available in the future.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2048067
- PAR ID:
- 10571732
- Publisher / Repository:
- Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Radium isotopes South Pacific GEOTRACES
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Subtropical South Pacific, Sub-Antarctic Pacific, and Southern Oceans; Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, Amundsen Sea; Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile
- Right(s):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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