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1 The ECCO 1 degree global WOCE Synthesis: Mass and Property Transports
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3 D. Stammer and C. Wunsch for the ECCO Consortium.
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5 The ECCO global WOCE synthesis is used to analyze ocean volume, heat
6 and freshwater transports. Time-mean horizontal transports, estimated
7 from this fully time-dependent constrained circulation, are now generally
8 consistent with the time-independent inverse estimates from box inversions,
9 with especially good agrement in the southern hemisphere.
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11 The estimated mean circulation around Australia involves a net volume
12 transport of 11 Sv through the Indonesian Throughflow and the Mozambique
13 Channel. This flow regime exists on all time scales longer than one
14 month---rendering the variability in the South Pacific strongly coupled
15 to that in the Indian Ocean.
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17 Dynamically consistent variations in the model show temporal variability
18 of oceanic heat transports, heat storage and atmospheric exchanges that
19 are complex and with a strong dependence upon location, depth, and
20 time-scale. One can now study the dynamics of both the mean and time
21 variability from the model with the reassurance that it is consistent
22 with the great bulk of the WOCE observations.

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