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Fine & Östlund 1977
Fine, R.A. and Östlund, H.G. (1977). Source function for tritium transport models in the Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters 4: doi: 10.1029/GL004i010p00461. issn: 0094-8276.

An empirically fitted function describes surface Pacific Ocean tritium concentrations as varying exponentially with latitude, the r.m.s. fit to observations is 18%. The oceanic tritium concentration maximum in the North Pacific, which resulted from nuclear weapons testing, lagged the rain data by two to three years occurring in 1965--66. Tritium-salinity correlations are consistent with climatology. Tritium-longitude correlations are consistent with surface water circulation.

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