TY - JOUR
T1 - Tasman leakage: A new route in the global ocean conveyor belt
AU - Speich, Sabrina
AU - Blanke, Bruno
AU - De Vries, Pedro
AU - Drijfhout, Sybren
AU - Döös, Kristofer
AU - Ganachaud, Alexandre
AU - Marsh, Robert
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The existence of a new route that draws relatively cold waters from the Pacific Ocean to the North Atlantic via the Tasman outflow is presented. The new route materialises with comparable magnitude and characteristics in three independent numerical realisations of the global ocean circulation. Its realism is supported by hydrographic data interpolated via an inverse model. The "Tasman leakage" constitutes a sizeable component of the upper branch of the global conveyor belt and represents an extension to the prevailing views that hitherto emphasised the routes via the Drake Passage and the Indonesian Throughflow [Gordon, 1986].
AB - The existence of a new route that draws relatively cold waters from the Pacific Ocean to the North Atlantic via the Tasman outflow is presented. The new route materialises with comparable magnitude and characteristics in three independent numerical realisations of the global ocean circulation. Its realism is supported by hydrographic data interpolated via an inverse model. The "Tasman leakage" constitutes a sizeable component of the upper branch of the global conveyor belt and represents an extension to the prevailing views that hitherto emphasised the routes via the Drake Passage and the Indonesian Throughflow [Gordon, 1986].
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/680b44d7-1672-394e-8730-f158f45f9bcd/
U2 - 10.1029/2001gl014586
DO - 10.1029/2001gl014586
M3 - Article
SN - 0094-8276
VL - 29
SP - 55-1-55-4
JO - Geophysical Research Letters
JF - Geophysical Research Letters
IS - 10
ER -