Passive tracers in a general circulation model of the Southern Ocean

Stevens, IG and Stevens, DP ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-4405 (1999) Passive tracers in a general circulation model of the Southern Ocean. Annales Geophysicae, 17 (7). pp. 971-982.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics (former - to 2024) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluid and Solid Mechanics (former - to 2024) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluids & Structures Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Numerical Simulation, Statistics & Data Science
Depositing User:	David Stevens
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2010 14:12
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2024 12:36
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/15872
DOI:	10.1007/s00585-999-0971-y

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