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Comparison of measurement and modeling results of the global 10Be flux in topsoil

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Soils are among the major terrestrial reservoirs of atmospheric 10Be isotope and provide information of landscape evolution history. Despite this importance, there is no overview of the global soil 10Be fluxes in topsoil that is linked with atmospheric flux models. A comparison between measured (in topsoil) and atmospherically modeled 10Be fluxes is presented here. The data show relatively good agreement in the latitudinal trends. This feature demonstrates the potential to use the modeling data in estimating soil development/erosion rates in large scale basins where extensive 10Be measurements can be limited.

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We gratefully acknowledge the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2016YFC0402706, 2016YFC0402710), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41323001, 51539003), National Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of China (Grant No. 51421006), Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering (Grant No. 2014490411) and the Program of Dual Innovative Research Team in Jiangsu Province and the Special Fund of State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering (Grant No. 20145027312). The 111 Project under Grant B08048, Ministry of Education and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, China.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

    P. Chen, Z. B. Yu, P. Yi & Vincent de Paul Mugwaneza

  2. College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

    P. Chen, Z. B. Yu, P. Yi & Vincent de Paul Mugwaneza

  3. Department of Geology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

    A. Aldahan

  4. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    A. Aldahan

  5. Tandem Laboratory, Uppsala University, PO Box 529, 751 20, Uppsala, Sweden

    G. Possnert

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Chen, P., Yu, Z.B., Aldahan, A. et al. Comparison of measurement and modeling results of the global 10Be flux in topsoil. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 311, 2039–2045 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5171-8

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