A Steady-State Analysis of the Atlantic Ocean
REPORT UDC 551.464:551.465 CM-71 August 1987 ON INVERSE METHODS FOR COMBINING CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA: A STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN Bert Bolin, Anders Björkström, Kim Holmen and Berrien Moore Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824 USA, and Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Marines, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI. DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY <5 Ä'J> UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM g ^f$f £ INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL -7, *f S> INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM ISSN 0280-445X DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY REPORT CM-71 1 (220) UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM (MISU) 1987-08-01 UDC 551.464:551.465 INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM (IMI) Arrhenius Laboratory S-106 91 STOCKHOLM, Sweden Tel 08/16 2406 ON INVERSE METHODS FOR COMBINING CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA: A STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN by Bert Bolin, Anders Björksträn, Kim Holmen and Berrien Moore *) Abstract An attempt has been made to increase the spatial resolution in the vise of inverse methods to deduce rates of water circulation and detritus formation by the simultaneous use of tracer data and the condition of quasi-geostrophic flow. It is shown that an cverdetermined system of equations is desirable to permit analysis of the sensitivity of a solution to errors in the data fields. The method has been tested for the Atlantic Ocean, in which case we employ an 84-box model (eight layers in the vertical and 12 regions in the horizontal define the box configuration). As quasi-steady tracers we consider dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), radiocarbon, alkalinity, phosphorus, oxygen, salinity and enthalpy.
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