Where and how long ago was water in the western North Atlantic ventilated? Maximum entropy inversions of bottle data from WOCE line A20

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Holzer, Mark, Primeau, Francois W, Smethie, William M, Khatiwala, Samar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2010
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Labrador sea-water; Denmark Strait overflow; Faroe Bank channel; deep-water; boundary current; mixed-layer; anthropogenic carbon; transit-time; ocean; circulation; Faroe Bank; Denmark Strait; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6kk0s49b

A maximum entropy (ME) method is used to deconvolve tracer data for the joint distribution of locations and times since last ventilation. The deconvolutions utilize World Ocean Circulation Experiment line A20 repeat hydrography for CFC-11, potential temperature, salinity, oxygen, and phosphate, as w...