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Setsuko Shibata1, Eiko Kawano, Takeshige Nakabayashi
1Research Center for Radiation and Radioisotopes, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-2 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 5998570, Japan. sshibata60@yahoo.co.jp
Abstract:
(14)C in rice grains is a useful tracer of atmospheric (14)C(CO(2)). (14)C measurement in rice grains for 17 years during 1982--1999 reveals the following. There is negative correlation between Delta(14)C and the population densities of localities in Japan. Under-populated areas in the northern area of Japan and Okinawa remained clean in the 1990s. The (14)C(CO(2)) decline rates at those areas are near to that of Shauinsland. A latitudinal effect due to Chinese nuclear tests is observed in 1982. Small Seuss effects is observed at the middle latitudes in East Asia after 1995.
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