Ventilation of the equatorial Atlantic by the equatorial deep jets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Brandt, Peter ^a   Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Claus, Martin ^a   Didwischus, Sven Helge ^a   Hormann, Verena ^b,c   Funk, Andreas ^a,d   Hahn, Johannes ^a   Krahmann, Gerd ^a   Fischer, Jrgen ^a   Krtzinger, Arne ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Forschungsbereich für Wasserschall und Geophysik FWG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION; DEPTH RANGE; EQUATORIAL BASINS; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; FLOW FEATURES; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN FLUXES; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; OXYGEN SOURCES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TEMPORAL PHASE; VELOCITY FIELD; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

VELOCITY;

OXYGEN;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BAROCLINIC MODE; HYDROGRAPHY; JET; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; UNDERCURRENT; VELOCITY PROFILE; VENTILATION; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84871379248     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008118     Document Type: Article

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