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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Corrosion Volume 2012, Article ID 162729, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2012/162729 Research Article Analysis of Short-Term Steel Corrosion Products Formed in Tropical Marine Environments of Panama ´ 1 2 ´ 2 Juan A. Jaen, Josefina Iglesias, and Cecilio Hernandez 1 Departamento de Quımica Fısica, CITEN, Lab. No. 105, Edificio de Laboratorios Cientıficos-VIP, ´ ´ ´ Universidad de Panama, Panama, Panama ´ 2 Laboratorio de Analisis Industriales y Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Tecnologica de Panama, Panama, Panama ´ ´ ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Juan A. Jaen, jjaen@ancon.up.ac.pa Received 24 May 2012; Revised 20 June 2012; Accepted 4 July 2012 Academic Editor: Flavio Deflorian ´ Copyright © 2012 Juan A. Jaen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A low-carbon steel A-36 and two conventional weathering steels A-588 and COR-420 exposed at four atmospheric test stations located in (i) Tocumen, an urban site near the Pacific Ocean, (ii) Sherman-Open, (iii) Sherman-Coastal, and (iv) Sherman- Breakwater on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Kinetics of the short-term atmospheric corrosion process and the relationship