TY - JOUR
T1 - Regional calibration of erosion radiotracers (210Pb and 137Cs): Atmospheric fluxes to soils (northern Spain)
AU - Sanchez-Cabeza, Joan Albert
AU - Garcia-Talavera, Marta
AU - Costa, Eduard
AU - Peña, Victor
AU - Garcia-Orellana, Jordi
AU - Masqué, Pere
AU - Nalda, Constantino
PY - 2007/2/15
Y1 - 2007/2/15
N2 - Inventories of radionuclides commonly used to study environmental processes, especially in erosion research, were determined in soil cores from two distant river basins in northern Spain. Results showed that 210Pb atmospheric fluxes correlate very well with mean annual rainfall across the region, and this is also the case for 137Cs inventories but only on the basin scale. Therefore we suggest that 210Pb is a better candidate as a radiotracer for soil erosion studies. In this region, the equation 210Pb flux (Bq m-2 yr-1) = (0.19 ± 0.02) × rainfall (mm yr-1) - (24 ± 17) can be used as a calibration to estimate input 210Pb fluxes, a key parameter in soil erosion studies and models, when mean annual rainfall is known. © 2007 American Chemical Society.
AB - Inventories of radionuclides commonly used to study environmental processes, especially in erosion research, were determined in soil cores from two distant river basins in northern Spain. Results showed that 210Pb atmospheric fluxes correlate very well with mean annual rainfall across the region, and this is also the case for 137Cs inventories but only on the basin scale. Therefore we suggest that 210Pb is a better candidate as a radiotracer for soil erosion studies. In this region, the equation 210Pb flux (Bq m-2 yr-1) = (0.19 ± 0.02) × rainfall (mm yr-1) - (24 ± 17) can be used as a calibration to estimate input 210Pb fluxes, a key parameter in soil erosion studies and models, when mean annual rainfall is known. © 2007 American Chemical Society.
U2 - 10.1021/es061356z
DO - 10.1021/es061356z
M3 - Article
SN - 0013-936X
VL - 41
SP - 1324
EP - 1330
JO - Environmental Science and Technology
JF - Environmental Science and Technology
ER -