Age spectra in North Atlantic Deep Water along the South American continental slope, 10°N-30°S, based on tracer observations

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1252-1276

  Huhn, Oliver ^a   Roether, Wolfgang ^a   Steinfeldt, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

North Atlantic Deep Water; South Atlantic; Tracer ages; Transient tracers; Transit time distributions; Tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TRACER AGES; TRANSIENT TRACERS; TRANSIT TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

BATHYMETRY;

AGE; CIRCULATION MODELING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACE GAS; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 50349101513     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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