The mean age of ocean waters inferred from radiocarbon observations: Sensitivity to surface sources and accounting for mixing histories

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 291-305

  Gebbie, Geoffrey ^a   Huybers, Peter ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass fluxes transport; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean circulation; Optimization; Tracers; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; GLOBAL OCEAN; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IN-LINE; INTERCOMPARISONS; INVERSE FRAMEWORK; MATRIX; MEAN AGES; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN WATER; OLD WATER; PACIFIC OCEAN; POTENTIAL RANGE; SOURCE WATERS; SURFACE REGION; SURFACE SOURCES; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; WORLD OCEAN;

DECOMPOSITION; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

AGE DETERMINATION; MASS TRANSPORT; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; TRACER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84856082295     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-043.1     Document Type: Article

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