Water masses in the Atlantic Ocean: water mass ages and ventilation

• Main Authors: Liu, Mian, Tanhua, Toste
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2024
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Tanhua; Antarc*; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1362; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00073788; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00071933/egusphere-2024-1362.pdf; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-1362/egusphere-2024-1362.pdf

The distribution of water masses, and the ventilation rates of these, are of significance to the thermohaline circulation and biogeochemistry of the world oceans. The distribution of the main water masses in the Atlantic Ocean is published in a companion study (Liu and Tanhua, 2021), their ages and...