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How long to oceanic tracer and proxy equilibrium

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In this paper, a global ocean circulation model, forced to least-square consistency with modern data, is used to find lower bounds for the time taken by surface-injected passive tracers to reach equilibrium.
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This article is published in Quaternary Science Reviews.The article was published on 2008-04-01. It has received 90 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermohaline circulation & North Atlantic Deep Water.

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Global General Circulation of the Ocean Estimated by the ECCO-Consortium

TL;DR: The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available as mentioned in this paper, and the MIT Faculty have made this access available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law.
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Ventilation of the deep ocean constrained with tracer observations and implications for radiocarbon estimates of ideal mean age

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used globally gridded radiocarbon data in combination with other transient (CFCs) and hydrographic (temperature, salinity, phosphate, and oxygen) tracer data to estimate the joint distribution of age and surface origin of deep ocean waters.
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Rapid Reductions in North Atlantic Deep Water During the Peak of the Last Interglacial Period

TL;DR: Using a subcentennially resolved epibenthic foraminiferal δ13C record, it is shown that the influence of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) was strong at the onset of the last interglacial period and was then interrupted by several prominent centennial-scale reductions.
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Regional and global benthic δ18O stacks for the last glacial cycle

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present regional stacks that characterize mean benthic δ18O change for 8 ocean regions and a volume-weighted global stack of data from 263 cores.

A novel strategy for accelerated simulation of passive tracers in ocean circulation models

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TL;DR: In this article, a novel strategy is proposed for the efficient simulation of geochemical tracers in ocean models, which captures the tracer advection and diffusion in a general circulation model (GCM) without any alteration (or even knowledge) of the GCM code.
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The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

TL;DR: The NCEP/NCAR 40-yr reanalysis uses a frozen state-of-the-art global data assimilation system and a database as complete as possible, except that the horizontal resolution is T62 (about 210 km) as discussed by the authors.
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Conduction of Heat in Solids

TL;DR: In this paper, a classic account describes the known exact solutions of problems of heat flow, with detailed discussion of all the most important boundary value problems, including boundary value maximization.
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Oceanic vertical mixing: A review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterization

TL;DR: In this article, a new parameterization of oceanic boundary layer mixing is developed to accommodate some of this physics, including a scheme for determining the boundary layer depth h, where the turbulent contribution to the vertical shear of a bulk Richardson number is parameterized.
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Isopycnal mixing in ocean circulation models

TL;DR: In this paper, a subgrid-scale form for mesoscale eddy mixing on isopycnal surfaces is proposed for use in non-eddy-resolving ocean circulation models.
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A finite-volume, incompressible Navier Stokes model for studies of the ocean on parallel computers

TL;DR: A preconditioner is used which, in the hydrostatic limit, is an exact integral of the Poisson operator and so leads to a single algorithm that seamlessly moves from nonhydrostatic to hydrostatic limits, competitive with the fastest ocean climate models in use today.
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