Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 39 (2012): L04603, doi:10.1029/2011GL050294.
Description:
A section across the Atlantic at 24°S recorded in March 2009, sampled a tracer plume released in the deep Brazil Basin 13 years earlier. The 1-D diffusion equation was used to model the vertical spread of the tracer, yielding a mean diapycnal diffusivity estimate of approximately 3 × 10−4 m2/s at 4 km depth. This estimate is similar to that found by surveys of the tracer plume made between 1996 and 2000, within four years of the tracer release and therefore provides strong evidence for the long-term stability of that result.
Description:
This
work was supported by the NERC (National Environmental Research
Council) 2025 Ocean program.
Description:
2012-08-21
Keywords:
BBTRE
;
Brazil
;
Basin
;
Diapycnal
;
Diffusivity
;
Tracer
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
Format:
application/pdf
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