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I didn’t really have a
chance to get into this too much today, but an important aspect of our work
is to use these results to evaluate the ocean carbon cycle GCM models. In
general we have found that the models do a reasonable job of reproducing the
large scale distributions, but there are a number of regional differences
that likely are related to transport issues. For example, here we
compare the data based results with
three different versions of the Princeton model. Each of the different
versions have different transport and mixing schemes. Jorge will likely talk
more about this, but my point here is simply to point out that the carbon
data from the global survey can provide a strong constraint for diagnosing
the transport in the carbon cycle models.
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