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Variation of Surface Radiocarbon in the North Pacific During Summer Season 2004–2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2019

T Aramaki ,
S Nakaoka ,
Y Terao ,
S Kushibashi ,
T Kobayashi ,
Y Osonoi ,
H Mukai  and
Y Tohjima
T Aramaki*
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
S Nakaoka
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
Y Terao
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
S Kushibashi
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
T Kobayashi
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
Y Osonoi
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
H Mukai
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
Y Tohjima
Affiliation:
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan
*
*Corresponding author. Email: ara@nies.go.jp.
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Abstract

Surface radiocarbon (Δ14C) in the North Pacific has been monitored using a commercial volunteer observation ship since the early 2000s. Here we report the temporal and spatial variations in Δ14C in the summer surface water when the surface ocean is vertically stratified over a 13-yr period, 2004–2016. The long-term Δ14C decreasing trend after the late 1970s in the subtropical region has continued to the present and the rate of decrease of the Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension, North Pacific and California current areas is calculated to be –3.3, –5.2 and –3.3 ‰/yr, respectively. After 2012 the Δ14C of the Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension area, however, has remained at an approximately constant value of around 50‰. The result may indicate that subtropical surface Δ14C in the western North Pacific has reached an equilibrium with atmospheric Δ14CO2. The Δ14C in the subarctic region is markedly lower than values in the subtropical region and it seems that the decreasing tendency of surface Δ14C has changed to an increasing tendency after 2010. The results may indicate that bomb-produced 14C, which has accumulated below the mixed layer in the past few decades, has been entrained into the surface layer by deep convection.

Keywords

long-term monitoringNorth Pacificradiocarbon in seawater
Type
Conference Paper
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Radiocarbon , Volume 61 , Issue 5: Radiocarbon 2018 Conference Proceedings Trondheim, Norway, June 17–22, 2018 Part 1 of 2 , October 2019 , pp. 1367 - 1375
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© 2019 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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Selected Papers from the 23rd International Radiocarbon Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 17–22 June, 2018

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