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On thermocline ventilation of active and passive tracers
Author(s) -
Liu Zhengyu,
Shin SangIk
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/1998gl900315
Subject(s) - thermocline , baroclinity , ventilation (architecture) , anomaly (physics) , geology , atmospheric sciences , flow (mathematics) , environmental science , meteorology , climatology , geophysics , mechanics , physics , condensed matter physics
The ventilation propagation of temperature and passive tracer anomalies are compared in a numerical model. Although both anomalies tend to have pathways close to the mean ventilation flow, the temperature anomaly could have a slower propagation speed and a more complex spatial structure. The temperature propagation is better understood in terms of baroclinic planetary waves.