Auxiliary material for Paper 2011GL046769

How is the ocean filled?

Geoffrey Gebbie 
Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

Peter Huybers
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA



Gebbie, G., and P. Huybers (2011), How is the ocean filled?, Geophys. Res. 
Lett., 38, L06604, doi:10.1029/2011GL046769.

Introduction

The auxiliary material consists of one PDF file with text and figures.
This material describes the mathematical underpinnings of the calculations
made in the main text. There are a total of 3 figures in the PDF file. 

1. 2011gl046769-txts01.pdf
Text S1. Description of the mathematical underpinnings of the calculations 
made in the main text with three figures.


Contents 

1. The steady-state circulation

2. Estimating tracer distributions

3. Diagnosing water-mass pathways

4. Adjoint method for the surface origination map

5. The distribution of water masses and its sensitivity to spatial resolution

6. References

7. Figures