Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-323-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-323-2020
Research article
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12 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 12 Mar 2020

Tracking the spread of a passive tracer through Southern Ocean water masses

Jan D. Zika, Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Andrew J. S. Meijers, Alberto C. Naveira-Garabato, Andrew J. Watson, Marie-Jose Messias, and Brian A. King

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AR by Jan Zika on behalf of the Authors (11 Dec 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
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RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Jan 2020)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Jan 2020)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 Jan 2020) by Ilker Fer
AR by Jan Zika on behalf of the Authors (16 Jan 2020)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (16 Jan 2020) by Ilker Fer
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Short summary
The ocean can regulate climate by distributing heat and carbon dioxide into its interior. This work has resulted from a major experiment aimed at understanding how that distribution occurs. In the experiment an artificial tracer was released into the ocean. After release the tracer was tracked as it was distorted by ocean currents. Using novel methods we reveal how the tracer's distortions follow the movement of the underlying water masses in the ocean and we estimate the rate at which it mixes.