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Titolo: Excess Po-210 in the coastal atmosphere
Autore: Kim, G; Hussain, N; Church, TM;
- Indirizzi:
- Univ Delaware, Coll Marine Studies, Newark, DE 19716 USA Univ Delaware Newark DE USA 19716 ll Marine Studies, Newark, DE 19716 USA
- Titolo Testata:
- TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY
fascicolo: 1,
volume: 52,
anno: 2000,
pagine: 74 - 80
- SICI:
- 0280-6509(200002)52:1<74:EPITCA>2.0.ZU;2-2
- Fonte:
- ISI
- Lingua:
- ENG
- Soggetto:
- WESTERN NORTH-ATLANTIC; RESIDENCE TIMES; RADON DAUGHTERS; PB-210; TRANSPORT; BI-210; BE-7; SULFIDE; FLUXES; SEA;
- Tipo documento:
- Article
- Natura:
- Periodico
- Settore Disciplinare:
- Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
- Citazioni:
- 29
- Recensione:
- Indirizzi per estratti:
- Indirizzo: Kim, G Florida State Univ, Dept Oceanog, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA FloridaState Univ Tallahassee FL USA 32306 lahassee, FL 32306 USA
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- Citazione:
- G. Kim et al., "Excess Po-210 in the coastal atmosphere", TELLUS B, 52(1), 2000, pp. 74-80
Abstract
Many researchers have reported the widespread occurrence of excess Po-210 in the global atmosphere and suggested probable sources such as resuspension of top soils, stratospheric aerosols, sea spray of the surface micro-layer, volcanic emission, and bio-volatile Po-210 species from the productive ocean. We have observed excess Po-210 on aerosols in the coastal atmosphere of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. On-board measurements in the Chesapeake Bay atmosphere show that the increase of this excess Po-210 is dependent upon wind speed. Simultaneously measured activity ratios of Be-7/Pb-210 andPb-210/Rn-222 argue against either higher altitude air or continental soils as the source of this excess. We hypothesize that the excess Po-210 originates mainly from surface waters either by the sea-spray of the surface microlayer, or more likely, by gas exchange. We conclude gas exchange as the mechanism since the polonium excess increases linearly with wind speed over a threshold of 3 m s(-1) (mean) similar to other gases (i.e., CO2, SF6, andDMS). In addition, higher Po-210 excess with lower Rn-222 is observed in on-shore marine air at Lewes. DE This suggests sea-air exchange of volatile Po along with other bio-volatile species (i.e., DMS, DMSe, and MMHg) in thecoastal productive ocean during high wind speeds.
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