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Tsunogai, Shizuo*; Kawada, Kentaro*; Watanabe, Shuichi*; Aramaki, Takafumi
Journal of Oceanography, 59(5), p.685 - 693, 2003/10
Times Cited Count：28 Percentile：48.05(Oceanography)The water column distributions of CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) were determined twice in 2000 and 2001 in the northwestern Japan Sea. In 2000, the CFC-11 concentration decreased almost exponentially with depth from 6 pmol/kg at a few hundred m deep to 0.3 pmol/kg or less at the bottom of about 3400 m depth at 3 stations about 300 km off Vladivostok. In 2001, the CFC-11 concentration increased extremely up to 2 pmol/kg in the bottom water, while it did not increase at a station about 450 km away to the northeast. This is due to the renewal of the bottom water replaced by the surface water flowing down along the continental slope. The increase in the CFC-11 concentration was observed even in the whole water column above 3000 m depth. The increase in inventory is almost four times larger than that in the bottom water below 3000 m depth and equals about 1/6 of the total inventory found in 2000. The increase also means that 3 % of the deep water was replaced by the recent surface water or the turnover time of the deep water to be about 30 years, if the turnover occurs every year.
C in the north pacific and the pursuit of the anthropogenic carbonAramaki, Takafumi; Watanabe, Shuichi*; Tsunogai, Shizuo*; Kuji, Tomoyuki*; Mizushima, Toshihiko; Togawa, Orihiko
JAERI-Conf 2000-019, p.73 - 75, 2001/02
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Aramaki, Takafumi*; Togawa, Orihiko; Watanabe, Shuichi*; Tsunogai, Shizuo*; Taira, Keisuke*
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Radiocarbon data (
C) were obtained in a wide range of surface and along the 165 degrees East in the western North Pacific between 1991 and 1993. The variability of C in surface water at north-south direction was larger than that at east-west direction, and C markedly decreased northward in the north of 40 degrees North. Comparing C data along 165 degrees East with the 1973 GEOSECS, it became clear that the bomb-produced C was transported from the surface to the intermediate layer in the sub-tropical region during the last 20 years, and not found in deep water in 1993. The distribution of the bomb-produced C and age of the deep water suggest that the sub-tropical bomb-C increase is caused from considerably storing in the intermediate layer originated in the sub-arctic region taken by vertical mixing and transported the North Pacific Intermediate Water flowing southward.
