《Low 210Pb in the upper thermocline in the Canadian Basinscavenge process over the Chukchi Sea》.pdfVIP

Acta Oceanol. Sin., 2014, Vol. 33, No. 6, P. 28–39 DOI: 10.1007/s13131-014-0486-6 E-mail: hyxbe@263.net Low 210Pb in the upper thermocline in the Canadian Basin: scavenge process over the Chukchi Sea 1 1,2 1,2 1 1,2 1 HU Wangjiang , CHEN Min *, YANG Weifeng , ZHANG Run , QIU Yusheng , ZHENG Minfang 1 College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China Received 25 January 2013; accepted 13 April 2013 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract 210Pb was measured during the 3rd Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition cruise to investigate its spa- tial pattern in the western Arctic Ocean, as well as its relation with the thermocline in the Canadian Basin. 3 The specific activities varied from 0.04 to 2.72, 0.013 to 4.37, and 0.1 to 4.85 Bq/m for dissolved, particu- 210 3 late, and bulk Pb, respectively, corresponding to respective averages of 0.65, 0.43, and 1.08 Bq/m . In the Canadian Basin, the minimum 210Pb activities occurred in the thermocline, which was characterized by low temperature of −1.52°C and salinity of 33.1. Combining the spatial distribution of 210Pb and hydrographical characteristics in the western Arctic Ocean, this scenario was ascribed to the effective scavenging of 210Pb when the Pacific water flowed across the Chukchi Shelf. Quantitatively, this interpretation was supported by both the shorter residence times and higher scavenging efficiencies (SE) of dissolved 210Pb over t