On thermocline ventilation of active and passive tracers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 357-360

  Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Shin, Sang Ik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BAROCLINIC; PASSIVE TRACERS; PLANETARY WAVES; PROPAGATION SPEED; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VENTILATION FLOW;

VENTILATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

THERMOCLINE VENTILATION;

CIRCULATION MODELING; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TRACER;

EID: 0033083403     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900315     Document Type: Article

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