Sur la production des 7Be et 32P dans l’air et l’utilisation de leur rapport d’activité

Alain Marenco; Jacques Fontan

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v26i3.9843

Sur la production des 7Be et 32P dans l’air et l’utilisation de leur rapport d’activité

Tellus

Volume 26 (1974): Issue 3

By: Alain Marenco and Jacques Fontan

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|Jan 1974

Abstract

A study of the values of the ⁷Be/³²P activity ratio, measured during several years by means of short time samplings, shows that the production efficiency of 32P by cosmic rays in the atmosphere has very likely been underestimated and that one should consider a corrected value of about 37 for the ratio between the production rates of ⁷Be and ³²P. Moreover, the theoretical studies by simulation on models and the experimental results obtained at Toulouse show the important influence of vertical movements of air upon the variation of the ⁷Be/³²P ratio in the troposphere.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v26i3.9843 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 376 - 385

Submitted on: May 29, 1973

Accepted on: Sep 7, 1973

Published on: Jan 1, 1974

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© 1974 Alain Marenco, Jacques Fontan, published by Stockholm University Press
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