Tasman leakage: A new route in the global ocean conveyor belt - art. no. 1416
| Type | Article | ||||||||
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| Date | 2002-05 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Speich Sabrina, Blanke Bruno, de Vries Pedro, Drijfhout Sybren, Doos Kristofer, Ganachaud Alexandre, Marsh Robert | ||||||||
| Affiliation(s) | CNRS, IFREMER, UBO, Lab Phys Oceans, F-29285 Brest, France. Royal Netherlands Meteorol Inst, NL-3730 AE De Bilt, Netherlands. Stockholm Univ, Inst Meteorol, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden. Inst Rech & Dev, Lab Etud Geophys & Oceanog Spatiale, F-31401 Toulouse 4, France. Southampton Oceanog Ctr, James Rennell DIv Ocean Circulat & Climate, Southampton SO14 3ZH, Hants, England. |
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| Source | Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (AGU), 2002-05 , Vol. 29 , N. 10 , P. NIL_922-NIL_925 | ||||||||
| DOI | 10.1029/2001GL014586 | ||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 85 | ||||||||
| Keyword(s) | Numerical model, Ocean circulation | ||||||||
| Abstract | [1] The existence of a new route that draws relatively cold waters from the Pacific Ocean to the North Atlantic via the Tasman outflow is presented. The new route materialises with comparable magnitude and characteristics in three independent numerical realisations of the global ocean circulation. Its realism is supported by hydrographic data interpolated via an inverse model. The "Tasman leakage'' constitutes a sizeable component of the upper branch of the global conveyor belt and represents an extension to the prevailing views that hitherto emphasised the routes via the Drake Passage and the Indonesian Throughflow [Gordon, 1986]. | ||||||||
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