| Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) 11 and 12 transports across the transoceanic World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) A25 section in the subpolar North Atlantic are derived from an inverse model using hydrographic and ADCP data (Lherminier et al., 2007). CFC and anthropogenic carbon (C-ANT) advective transports contrary to expected are uncoupled: C-ANT is transported northeastwards (82 +/- 39 kmol s(-1)) mainly within the overturning circulation, while CFC-11 and CFC-12 are transported southwestwards (-24 +/- 4 and -11 +/- 2 mol s(-1), respectively) as part of the large-scale horizontal circulation. The main reason for this uncoupled behaviour is the complex CFC vs. C-ANT relation in the ocean, which stems from the contrasting temperature relation for both... |
