/expose-tracer

Tracer distributions from passive tracer release experiments in Subantarctic Mode Water pools

Primary LanguageJupyter NotebookMIT LicenseMIT

expose-tracer

This repository contains code and data from a set of passive tracer experiments [Fig. 4, Jones et al. (2016)]. This figure has been included as part of a review paper on ventilation (Morrison et al., 2021)

tracer_ventilation

Requirements for Matlab code

  • Matlab 2018b
  • M_Map v1.4k

Requirements for Jupyter notebook

  • python 3.7.4
  • matplotlib 3.1.1
  • cartopy 0.17.0
  • numpy 1.17.2
  • xaray 0.16.2

Project Organization

├── colormaps                 <- Various colormaps used in these plots
├── data_in                   <- Tracer data from Jones et al. (2016)
├── data_pre                  <- Matlab code that was used to create the NetCDF file
├── notebooks                 <- Jupyter notebook for visualization
├── plots                     <- Plots from Matlab code
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├── LICENSE
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├── README.md                 <- Overall description
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├── tracer_histogram_plot.m   <- Matlab code to plot distribution

References

Jones, D. C., Meijers, A. J. S., Shuckburgh, E., Sallée, J.-B., Haynes, P., McAufield, E. K., and Mazloff, M. R. (2016), How does Subantarctic Mode Water ventilate the Southern Hemisphere subtropics?, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 121, 6558– 6582, doi:10.1002/2016JC011680.

Morrison, A. K., Waugh, D. W., Hogg, A. McC., Jones, D. C., and Abernathey, R. P. (2021), Ventilation of the Southern Ocean pycnocline, under review