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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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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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Feedback between deglaciation, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2

TL;DR: In this paper, an evaluation of the historical record of volcanic eruptions shows that subaerial volcanism increases globally by two to six times above background levels between 12-ka and 7-ka, during the last deglaciation.
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Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

TL;DR: In this article, a stricter approach was proposed to improve intercomparison of palaeoclimate sensitivity estimates in a manner compatible with equilibrium projections for future climate change, which revealed a climate sensitivity (in K W -1 m 2) of 0.3-1.9 or 0.6 -1.3 at 95% or 68% probability, respectively.
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Eddy Saturation of Equilibrated Circumpolar Currents

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a sector configuration of an ocean general circulation model to examine the sensitivity of circumpolar transport and meridional overturning to changes in Southern Ocean wind stress and global diapycnal mixing.
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Determining paleoceanographic circulations, with emphasis on the Last Glacial Maximum

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the North Atlantic Ocean circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum and showed that the circulation of mass is unlikely to correspond simply to circulation of heat or freshwater (salt).
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How fast did the ocean—atmosphere system run during the last deglaciation?

TL;DR: Oxygen isotope analyses performed on planktonic and benthic foraminifera in four deep sea cores show that during the last deglaciation, the meltwater isotopic signal propagated almost instantaneously in the whole North Atlantic and in less than one millennia in the Pacific and Indian deep waters as discussed by the authors.
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The Ocean's Memory of the Atmosphere: Residence-Time and Ventilation-Rate Distributions of Water Masses

TL;DR: In this article, tracer-independent ventilation rates for overlapping entry and exit regions are investigated in the presence of mixing by mesoscale eddies, which are reasonably represented by diffusion.
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Transit-Time Distributions in a Global Ocean Model

TL;DR: In this article, a simulation of the ocean "transit-time distribution" (TTD) for global and regional ocean surface boundary conditions is presented based on a 5000-yr integration using the Parallel Ocean Program ocean general circulation model.
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Applied Mathematics in Hydrogeology

TL;DR: Conservation Equations Source Functions and Convolution Laplace and Hankel Transforms drawdown in Confined Aquifers Drawdown in unconfined aquifers Heat Transfer and Groundwater Flow Solute Transport Solving Ax=b Finite Element Analysis Inverse Problems Appendix: Notes on Equation Solving as discussed by the authors
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