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Duffy et al. 1995
Duffy, P.B., Eltgroth, P., Bourgeois, A.J. and Caldeira, K. (1995). Effect of improved subgrid scale transport of tracers on uptake of bomb radiocarbon in the GFDL Ocean General Circulation Model. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL00807. issn: 0094-8276.

We show that the Gent-McWilliams tracer transport parameterization greatly improves the ability of the GFDL ocean general circulation model to simulate vertical profiles of both temperature and bomb radiocarbon with a single set of model parameter values. This parameterization, which includes new advection terms as well as isopycnal mixing, has previously been shown to greatly improve simulated temperature fields. Here, we show that it does not markedly affect the already good simulation of oceanic absorption of bomb radiocarbon, and discuss the reasons for this result. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Oceanography, Physical, Eddies and mesoscale processes, Oceanography, Physical, Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes, Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Radioactivity and radioisotopes
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