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A global diagnostic of interior ocean ventilation

A global diagnostic of interior ocean ventilation
A global diagnostic of interior ocean ventilation
Ventilation is the process by which water is transferred from the surface mixed layer to the interior ocean. Ventilation anomalies as the result of climate variability may impact the atmosphere in remote regions where the flow returns to the mixed layer. From the Lagrangian analysis of monthly-mean ocean fields of a numerical model constrained by observed climatologies, we show that 324 Sv of mixed layer water travel throughout the interior ocean for periods longer than 12 months, leading to an average volume replacement time of roughly 125 yr. We evaluate the connections established on a global scale, with an appropriate mapping of the ventilation and corresponding obduction regions, and highlight the role of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current as a main receptacle of the water masses formed throughout the world ocean.
0094-8276
art. 1267
Blanke, Bruno
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Speich, Sabrina
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Madec, Gurvan
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Maugé, Rudy
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Blanke, Bruno
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Speich, Sabrina
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Madec, Gurvan
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Maugé, Rudy
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Blanke, Bruno, Speich, Sabrina, Madec, Gurvan and Maugé, Rudy (2002) A global diagnostic of interior ocean ventilation. Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (8), art. 1267. (doi:10.1029/2001GL013727).

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Ventilation is the process by which water is transferred from the surface mixed layer to the interior ocean. Ventilation anomalies as the result of climate variability may impact the atmosphere in remote regions where the flow returns to the mixed layer. From the Lagrangian analysis of monthly-mean ocean fields of a numerical model constrained by observed climatologies, we show that 324 Sv of mixed layer water travel throughout the interior ocean for periods longer than 12 months, leading to an average volume replacement time of roughly 125 yr. We evaluate the connections established on a global scale, with an appropriate mapping of the ventilation and corresponding obduction regions, and highlight the role of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current as a main receptacle of the water masses formed throughout the world ocean.

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Published date: 30 April 2002
Organisations: National Oceanography Centre,Southampton

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Local EPrints ID: 64814
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/64814
ISSN: 0094-8276
PURE UUID: 93e5c65f-5e0d-4d46-afb7-cd2973be4ade

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Date deposited: 15 Jan 2009
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 12:02

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Author: Bruno Blanke
Author: Sabrina Speich
Author: Gurvan Madec
Author: Rudy Maugé

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