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Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1489-2021
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Research article
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27 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 27 Oct 2021

The riddle of eastern tropical Pacific Ocean oxygen levels: the role of the supply by intermediate-depth waters

Olaf Duteil, Ivy Frenger, and Julia Getzlaff

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The large oxygen minimum zones in the tropical Pacific Ocean are still not well represented by typical climate models. We analyze a set of ocean models and highlight the fact that an oxygen concentration that is too low at intermediate depth in the subtropical regions associated with a sluggish representation of the intermediate equatorial current system may be responsible for the overly large extension of the modeled oxygen minimum zones, potentially hampering future projections.
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