Exchange times in the Pacific Equatorial Current system

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Sep 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980e%26psl..49..447f&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 49, Issue 2, p. 447-452.

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Tritium data from the GEOSECS eastern and western track stations sampled in the thermocline of the North Equatorial Counter Current (NECC) showed high values, which are indicative of the contribution of the North Equatorial Current (NEC) to the equatorial region. A tritium front at 6°N is evidence of the penetration of northern latitude water into the NECC. The results of a two-box model show no net flux between NEC and NECC and a lower bound estimate of five years for an exchange time scale between the NEC and NECC in the thermocline; this is consistent with a horizontal diffusivity of 5 × 107 cm2/s.

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