21. RICHARD-J. MATEAR
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RICHARD-J. MATEAR is an academic who published a paper in 2008 entitled Und,,rstanding the COâ‚‚cycle in the North Pacific Ocean using inverse box models. RICHARD-J. MATEAR published this work as part of a team: Matear, Richard J.. Here is a description of this work: Tra,,er transports across 35°N were computed using the hydrographic data from a synoptic section (INDOPAC) and from the Levitus annual mean section. The tracer transports calculated from the INDOPAC section were better able to close the tracer budgets in the North Pacific than the Levitus section. The transport calculations showed that highly resolved hydrographic data are necessary to accurately determine the tracer transports, and pointed out the sensitivity of the calculation to errors in the Ekman transports and air-sea exchanges of fresh water. The inverse box model was applied to data generated from the Hamburg LSGOC-biogeochemical model. For this data, the mixing transports of the tracers were important for closing the tracer budgets. Applying the inverse box model to the temperature, salinity, total CO2, alkalinity, phosphate, oxy.