A basin-wide estimate of vertical mixing in the upper pycnocline: spreading of bomb tritium in the North Pacific Ocean

• Main Authors: Dan E. Kelley, Kim A. Van Scoy
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Munk; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.523.84; http://myweb.dal.ca/kelley/pub/pub_sci/Kelley_VanScoy_JPO_1999/Kelley_VanScoy_JPO_1999.pdf

The vertical diffusivity KV in the upper half-kilometer of the North Pacific subtropical pycnocline is estimated from observations of the spreading rate of anthropogenic tritium. The calculation is based on approximately 300 ocean tritium profiles made since tritium was introduced to the atmosphere...