Ventilation of the deep ocean constrained with tracer observations and implications for radiocarbon estimates of ideal mean age

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 325-326, Issue , 2012, Pages 116-125

  Khatiwala, S ^a   Primeau, F ^b   Holzer, M ^c,d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Green function; Ideal mean age; Inverse modeling; Ocean ventilation; Radiocarbon age; Tracers

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; DEEP OCEAN WATER; FLUID PARCEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; INVERSE MODELING; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; MEAN AGES; MEAN TRANSIT TIME; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; RADIOCARBON AGE; RADIOCARBON CONCENTRATION; RADIOCARBON DATA; SOURCE REGION; SOURCE WATERS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE CONTACT; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; TIME-SCALES; TRACE-GASES; TRANSIT TIME; TRANSPORT PATHWAYS; WATER MASS; WIDE SPECTRUM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; ESTIMATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); VENTILATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DEEP WATER VENTILATION; GREEN FUNCTION; INVERSE PROBLEM; MODELING; RADIOCARBON DATING; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84857433849     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.038     Document Type: Article

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