Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Helium Isotope Laboratory data release no. 1

This report summarizes technique, estimated precisions and results for 3H and 3He analyses made on three cruises in the Sargasso Sea. In addition, a statistical treatment is made on 36 surface (≤10m) 3He/4He analyses to obtain an estimate of the solubility isotope effect and its temperature dependence to be ( α - 1) X 1000 °/oo = -(17.3 ~ 0.8) +(0.28 ~ 0.06) T (°C) with a regression scatter of 2.6 °/oo and a linear correlation coefficient of 0.640.Prepared for the Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-74-C-0262; NR 083-004 and for the National Science Foundation under Grant OCE 76-20485