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Property fluxes at 30 deg S and their implications for the Pacific-Indian throughflow and the global heat budgetThe extent of exchange between the Pacific and Indian Oceans through the Indonesian Archipelago and the net global oceanic heat flux are determined using six hydrographic basinwide sections, two in each of the three major ocean basins. Globally, at 30 deg S, the estimated net oceanic heat flux is -0.7 +/- 0.1 PW, dominated by a large southward flux in the Indian Ocean. Large equatorward heat flux values in the South Atlantic Basin are not consistent with the data. Although the data are consistent with some water following the 'warm water' return path for North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW), the 'cold water' path must play the dominant role in the maintenance of the global thermohaline cell associated with the formation process of NADW.
Document ID
19930051754
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Macdonald, Alison M.
(MIT Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
April 15, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 98
Issue: C4
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Oceanography
Accession Number
93A35751
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-1048
Distribution Limits
Public
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