Role of bottom water transport and diapycnic mixing in determining the radiocarbon distribution in the Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Roussenov, Vassil ^a   Williams, Richard G ^a   Follows, Michael J ^b   Key, Robert M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep circulation; Pacific Ocean; Radiocarbon modeling

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP WATER; MIXING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 4444339092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002188     Document Type: Article

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