Thorium isotope evidence for glacial–interglacial dust storminess and productivity in the North Pacific gyre

T Chen, J Zheng, T Li, X Shi, LF Robinson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The flux of dust deposition to the ocean and its impact on marine biological productivity are
outstanding issues of the Earth's climate system. The North Pacific gyre (NPG) is the Earth's …

[HTML][HTML] Neodymium budget in the Mediterranean Sea: evaluating the role of atmospheric dusts using a high-resolution dynamical-biogeochemical model

M Ayache, JC Dutay, K Tachikawa, T Arsouze… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
The relative importance of river solid discharge, deposited sediment remobilisation, and
atmospheric dust as sources of neodymium (Nd) to the ocean is the subject of ongoing …

Fast Spin‐Up of Geochemical Tracers in Ocean Circulation and Climate Models

S Khatiwala - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean geochemical tracers such as radiocarbon, protactinium and thorium isotopes, and
noble gases are widely used to constrain a range of physical and biogeochemical …

Improvements in the determination of attogram-sized 231Pa in dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater via multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass …

P Zhang, Y Lu, Z Zhang, RL Edwards… - Progress in Earth and …, 2023 - Springer
A technique is developed to quantify the ultra-trace 231Pa (35–3904 ag) concentration in
seawater using multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) …