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Carbon Exchange Between Atmosphere and Oceans in a Latitude-Dependent Advection-Diffusion Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Gerhard Kratz ,
G H Kohlmaier ,
E O Siré ,
Ursula Fischbach  and
Horst Bröhl
Gerhard Kratz
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Str 11 D-6000 Frankfurt/M, West Germany
G H Kohlmaier
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Str 11 D-6000 Frankfurt/M, West Germany
E O Siré
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Str 11 D-6000 Frankfurt/M, West Germany
Ursula Fischbach
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Str 11 D-6000 Frankfurt/M, West Germany
Horst Bröhl
Affiliation:
Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Str 11 D-6000 Frankfurt/M, West Germany
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Marine transport of inorganic and organic carbon is simulated by means of a computer model in which the oceans are divided into a high and low latitude region. Water transport (and with it carbon transport) is reproduced 1) as downwelling of surface waters at low latitudes, and 2) in general, as different depth-dependent turbulent diffusion in both deep-sea regions. The model is calibrated with pre-bomb 14C and validated against perturbations of total carbon, 13C/C- and 14C/C-ratios; it is compatible with carbon release from fossil fuels and from biogenic sources.

Type
IV. Oceanography
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 25 , Issue 2: 11th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1983 , pp. 459 - 471
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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