Dense Water Formation and Overturning in the Red Sea: A Proposal to Collect Anthropogenic Tracer Observations

Lead PI: Dr. William Massie Smethie
Unit Affiliation: Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
September 2011 - October 2012
Inactive
Asia ; Middle East
Project Type: Research

DESCRIPTION: WHOI will collect samples of CFCs and SF6 from the Red Sea and send them to LDEO to be measured, merged with WHOI data, and plotted to check for questionable data.

SPONSOR: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
ORIGINATING SPONSOR: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
FUNDED AMOUNT: $50,572
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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tracers sulfur hexafluoride measurements ocean and climate physics red sea ocean overturning chlorofluorocarbons

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