Dataset: Beryllium-7 Aerosol Concentration from USCGC Healy cruise HLY1502 in the Canada and Makarov Basins of the Arctic Ocean from August to October 2015 (US GEOTRACES Arctic)

A total of fourteen 3-4 day integrated aerosol samples were collected during the US GEOTRACES Western Arctic research cruise (GN01, Marsay et al., 2016), which took place from 9th August to 12th October 2015 on the USCGC Healy (cruise HLY1502). Aerosol samples were obtained with a Tisch TE-5170V-BL high volume aerosol sampler, modified to collect 12 replicate samples on acid-washed (Wallace et al, 1977; Baker et al., 2006) 47mm diameter Whatman-41 (W-41) filters, using procedures of the US GEOTRACES aerosol program (Morton et al., 2013). In order to minimize the filter blanks for our experiment, the W-41 filters were pre-cleaned before deployment using three cycles of leaching with 0.5M HCl (Optima) then rinsing with ultra-high purity water (UHP water) according to trace element protocols in a HEPA-filtered laminar flow hood (Morton et al., 2013; similar to Baker et al., 2006).

For 7Be, three of the 47mm aerosol samples were stacked in a plastic Petri dish and counted by gamma spectroscopy. Be-7 has a readily identifiable gamma peak at 478 keV. The counting system was calibrated for all samples by preparing a commercial standard in geometry identical to the samples.

Please refer to: Kadko & Olson (1996) and Kadko et al. (2016) (full citations below).