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How long to oceanic tracer and proxy equilibrium
Carl Wunsch,Patrick Heimbach +1 more
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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.About:
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.read more
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MOPS-1.0: towards a model for the regulation of the global oceanic nitrogen budget by marine biogeochemical processes
Iris Kriest,Andreas Oschlies +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of global properties suggests that particularly particle sinking speed, but also the parameterization of denitrification determines the extent of oxygen minimum zones, global nitrogen fluxes, and hence the oceanic nitrogen inventory.
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The Global Zonally Integrated Ocean Circulation, 1992–2006: Seasonal and Decadal Variability
Carl Wunsch,Patrick Heimbach +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the top-to-bottom oceanic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) and its variability from 1992 to 2006 were estimated using a least squares adjusted general circulation model.
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Paleophysical Oceanography with an Emphasis on Transport Rates
Peter Huybers,Carl Wunsch +1 more
TL;DR: Determination of the circulation of the Last Glacial Maximum is used to outline some of the main challenges to progress, and the existence of many plausible explanatory scenarios, few features of the paleocirculation in any period are yet known with certainty.
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Fingerprinting the 8.2 ka BP event climate response in a coupled climate model
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the typical pattern of climate anomalies (fingerprint) to provide a framework for the interpretation of global proxy data for the 8.2 ka climate event and developed an analysis method that isolates the forced temperature response and provides information on spatial variations in magnitude, timing and duration that characterise the detectable climate event in proxy archives.
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The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
Eugenia Kalnay,Masao Kanamitsu,Robert Kistler,William D. Collins,D.G. Deaven,L. S. Gandin,M. Iredell,Suranjana Saha,Glenn H. White,John S. Woollen,Yuejian Zhu,Muthuvel Chelliah,Wesley Ebisuzaki,Wayne Higgins,John E. Janowiak,Kingtse C. Mo,Chester F. Ropelewski,Julian X. L. Wang,Ants Leetmaa,Richard W. Reynolds,Roy L. Jenne,Dennis Joseph +21 more
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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Oceanic vertical mixing: A review and a model with a nonlocal boundary layer parameterization
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Isopycnal mixing in ocean circulation models
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A finite-volume, incompressible Navier Stokes model for studies of the ocean on parallel computers
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