Print Email Facebook Twitter Partial ages: Diagnosing transport processes by means of multiple clocks Title Partial ages: Diagnosing transport processes by means of multiple clocks Author Mouchet, A. Cornaton, F. Deleersnijder, E.L.C. Delhez, E.J.M. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics Date 2016-02-09 Abstract The concept of age is widely used to quantify the transport rate of tracers - or pollutants - in the environment. The age focuses only on the time taken to reach a given location and disregards other aspects of the path followed by the tracer parcel. To keep track of the subregions visited by the tracer parcel along this path, partial ages are defined as the time spent in the different subregions. Partial ages can be computed in an Eulerian framework in much the same way as the usual age by extending the Constituent oriented Age and Residence Time theory (CART, www.?climate.?be/?CART). In addition to the derivation of theoretical results and properties of partial ages, applications to a 1D model with lateral/transient storage, to the 1D advection-diffusion equation and to the diagnosis of the ventilation of the deep ocean are provided. They demonstrate the versatility of the concept of partial age and the potential new insights that can be gained with it. Subject ageadvection-diffusiontracer methods To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:392d47a2-2f8b-4632-a213-8fbb1f74523a Publisher Springer ISSN 1616-7341 Source https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-016-0922-6 Source Ocean Dynamics, 66 (3), 2016 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 Springer Files PDF 329965.pdf 1.05 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:392d47a2-2f8b-4632-a213-8fbb1f74523a/datastream/OBJ/view