Constraining the North Atlantic circulation between 4.5°S and 39.5°N with transient tracer observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Li, Xingwen ^a   Wunsch, Carl ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint model; State estimation; Transient tracer

Indexed keywords

CFC; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TRACER; TRITIUM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 1642440081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001765     Document Type: Article

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