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Quantifying thermohaline circulations: seawater isotopic compositions and salinity as proxies of the ratio between advection time and evaporation time
Hadar Berman
Nathan Paldor
Boaz Lazar
Abstract. Uncertainties in quantitative estimates of the thermohaline circulation in any particular basin are large, partly due to large uncertainties in quantifying excess evaporation over precipitation and surface velocities. A single nondimensional parameter, γ ≡ q⁄h x⁄u is proposed to characterize the strength
of the thermohaline circulation by combining the physical parameters of surface velocity (u), evaporation rate (q), mixed layer depth (h) and trajectory length (x). Values of γ can be estimated directly from cross-sections of salinity or seawater isotopic composition (δ18O and δD). Estimates of γ in the Red Sea and the South-West Indian Ocean are 0.1 and 0.02, respectively, which implies that the thermohaline contribution to the circulation in the former is higher than in the latter. Once the value of γ has been determined in a particular basin, either q or u can be estimated from known values of the remaining parameters. In the studied basins such estimates are consistent with previous studies.
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RC1: 'MS OS-2017-58 Quantifying thermohaline circulations: seawater isotopic compositions and salinity as proxies of the ratio between advection time and evaporation time, by Hadar Berman, Nathan Paldor and Boaz Lazar', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Dec 2017
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AC1: 'Authors' response to reviewer1', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018
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AC1: 'Authors' response to reviewer1', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018
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RC2: 'Strength of thermohaline circulation', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Dec 2017
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AC2: 'authors' response to reviewer2', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018
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AC2: 'authors' response to reviewer2', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018


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RC1: 'MS OS-2017-58 Quantifying thermohaline circulations: seawater isotopic compositions and salinity as proxies of the ratio between advection time and evaporation time, by Hadar Berman, Nathan Paldor and Boaz Lazar', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Dec 2017
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AC1: 'Authors' response to reviewer1', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018
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AC1: 'Authors' response to reviewer1', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018
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RC2: 'Strength of thermohaline circulation', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Dec 2017
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AC2: 'authors' response to reviewer2', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018
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AC2: 'authors' response to reviewer2', Nathan Paldor, 15 Jan 2018
Hadar Berman et al.
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