Passive tracers in a general circulation model of the Southern Ocean
Passive tracers are used in an off-line version of the United Kingdom Fine Resolution Antarctic Model (FRAM) to highlight features of the circulation and provide information on the inter-ocean exchange of water masses. The use of passive tracers allows a picture to be built up of the deep circulatio...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:e0389317b18740ae93ea33988a25daac 2023-05-15T14:01:09+02:00 Passive tracers in a general circulation model of the Southern Ocean I. G. Stevens D. P. Stevens 1999-07-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-999-0971-y https://doaj.org/article/e0389317b18740ae93ea33988a25daac EN eng Copernicus Publications https://www.ann-geophys.net/17/971/1999/angeo-17-971-1999.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/0992-7689 https://doaj.org/toc/1432-0576 doi:10.1007/s00585-999-0971-y 0992-7689 1432-0576 https://doaj.org/article/e0389317b18740ae93ea33988a25daac Annales Geophysicae, Vol 17, Pp 971-982 (1999) Science Q Physics QC1-999 Geophysics. Cosmic physics QC801-809 article 1999 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-999-0971-y 2022-12-31T00:50:19Z Passive tracers are used in an off-line version of the United Kingdom Fine Resolution Antarctic Model (FRAM) to highlight features of the circulation and provide information on the inter-ocean exchange of water masses. The use of passive tracers allows a picture to be built up of the deep circulation which is not readily apparent from examination of the velocity or density fields. Comparison of observations with FRAM results gives good agreement for many features of the Southern Ocean circulation. Tracer distributions are consistent with the concept of a global "conveyor belt" with a return path via the Agulhas retroflection region for the replenishment of North Atlantic Deep Water. Key words. Oceanography: general (numerical modeling; water masses) · Oceanography: physical (general circulation) Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic Southern Ocean Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic Southern Ocean Annales Geophysicae 17 7 971 982 |
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Passive tracers are used in an off-line version of the United Kingdom Fine Resolution Antarctic Model (FRAM) to highlight features of the circulation and provide information on the inter-ocean exchange of water masses. The use of passive tracers allows a picture to be built up of the deep circulation which is not readily apparent from examination of the velocity or density fields. Comparison of observations with FRAM results gives good agreement for many features of the Southern Ocean circulation. Tracer distributions are consistent with the concept of a global "conveyor belt" with a return path via the Agulhas retroflection region for the replenishment of North Atlantic Deep Water. Key words. Oceanography: general (numerical modeling; water masses) · Oceanography: physical (general circulation) |
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Passive tracers in a general circulation model of the Southern Ocean |
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