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This chapter reviews how radiocarbon (14C) in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) has been used to determine the cycling time of water within the world ocean, and how 14C in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is being used to reveal the sources and cycling of this largest organic carbon pool in the ocean. In addition, recent studies that reveal the concentration and 14C values of black carbon in DOC in the oceans are presented.

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  1. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    E. R. M. Druffel

  2. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

    S. R. Beaupré

  3. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    S. R. Beaupré

  4. Marine Science Program and Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

    L. A. Ziolkowski

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Druffel, E.R.M., Beaupré, S.R., Ziolkowski, L.A. (2016). Radiocarbon in the Oceans. In: Schuur, E., Druffel, E., Trumbore, S. (eds) Radiocarbon and Climate Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25643-6_5

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