The leaky funnel model revisited

A former publication proposed an idealised view of the global ocean ventilation consisting in a flow through a porous pipe with decreasing section (a leaky funnel). The agreement between the domain-averaged ages as obtained with a coarse-grid 3-D ocean general circulation model (OGCM) and the leaky...

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Main Authors: Anne Mouchet, Eric Deleersnijder, Francois Primeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2012-09-01
Series:Tellus: Series A, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
Subjects:
age
Online Access:http://www.tellusa.net/index.php/tellusa/article/view/19131/pdf_1