Beryllium-7 concentrations in seawater during the MOSAiC expedition

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Pumps were used to collect seawater within the upper 60 m of the ocean for Be-7analysis. Unfiltered seawater was drawn through a pvc hose to the surface where it was passed through iron-oxide impregnated acrylic fiber filters, which adsorb the Be-7. A flow meter attached in-line to the filter compartment recorded the amount of seawater passed through each filter. To maximize Be-7 collection, two or three fibers filtering approximately 600- 700 L of seawater apiece were collected from each depth and later combined. For the mixed layer samples, water was collected from the ship's seawater intake (~8m) into barrels from which the water was passed through the iron-oxide filters as described above. The fibers were dried and shipped to Florida International University. There, the fibers were ashed, placed in a Marinelli beaker and analyzed with a high purity germanium (HPGe) gamma detector. Be-7 has a readily identifiable gamma peak at 478 keV. The detector is calibrated by adding a commercially prepared mixed solution of known gamma activities to an ashed fiber and counting it in the Marinelli geometry.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.945403
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.945414
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.945403
Provenance
Creator Stephens, Mark
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, AFMOSAiC 1_00; Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, AWI_PS122_00; National Science Foundation, 1753423
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 75 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (12.392W, 83.994S, 115.966E, 88.496N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-12-21T12:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-04-29T12:00:00Z