Tasman leakage: a new route in the global ocean conveyor belt

Speich, S.; Blanke, B.; de Vries, P.; Doos, K.; Drijfhout, S.; Ganachaud, A.; Marsh, R.. 2002 Tasman leakage: a new route in the global ocean conveyor belt. Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (10). art.1416-[4pp]. 10.1029/2001GL014586

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Abstract/Summary

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 ].

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2001GL014586
ISSN:	0094-8276
Date made live:	27 Jun 2006 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/139302

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1029/2001GL014586

ISSN:

0094-8276

Date made live:

27 Jun 2006 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/139302