Penetration of bomb radiocarbon in the tropical Indian Ocean measured by means of accelerator mass spectrometry

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Radiocarbon measurements performed on seawater samples by means of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) enable to reduce by a factor of 2000 the water sample size needed for the 14C measurements. Therefore no chemical treatment on board the oceanographic vessel is required. Seventy-four AMS 14C determinations on samples collected in the tropical-equatorial Indian Ocean during the second leg of the INDIGO program (1986) are presented and compared with the β-counting results obtained during the same campaign and the GEOSECS program (1978). A pronounced reduction of the equatorial 14C deficit suggests that substantial amounts of bomb-14C are associated with the westward flowing Pacific water which enters the Indian Ocean via passages through the Indonesia archipelago and/or to meridional mixing with 14C-rich water of the southern subtropical gyre.

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