Abstract: Chlorofluorocarbon (component CFC-11) and hydrographic data from 1997, 1999, and 2001 are presented to track the large-scale spreading of the Upper Labrador Sea Water (ULSW) in the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic Ocean. ...

Abstract: The intimate relationship among ventilation, transit-time distributions, and transient tracer budgets is analyzed. To characterize the advective?diffusive transport from the mixed layer to the interior ocean in terms of ...