Relationships among tracer ages

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Waugh, Darryn W ^a   Hall, Timothy M ^b   Haine, Thomas W N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean tracers; Ocean transport; Tracer ages; Transit time distributions

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CFC; TRACER; WATER MASS;

EID: 0041823368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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