Water mass ages based on GLODAPv2 data product (NCEI Accession 0226793)

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This dataset contain ventilation ages calculated using the transit time distribution (TTD) method (e.g., Waugh et al., 2004) on the GLODAPv2 data synthesis product (Olsen et al., 2016). Ventilation age is defined as the time elapsed since a water parcel was last in contact with the atmosphere. Our calculated ages are estimated from measured concentrations of the transient tracers sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), and the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) CFC-11 and CFC-12. For these TTD calculations we have assumed full (100%) saturation of the transient tracers when subducted, which will generate a bias toward older ages in especially dense water formation regions since it is known that the saturation there is frequently lower than 100%. We assume that the solution to the Greens function is an Inverse Gaussian (IG) function. Furthermore, we have assumed a balance between advection and mixing, i.e., unity ratio between the width and the mean age of the TTDs. This assumption is typically adopted in the global ocean (e.g., Waugh et al., 2006), although there is regional variability (e.g., Stöven and Tanhua, 2014; Rajasakaren et al., 2019). Thus, some care should be taken when utilising the calculated ages in certain regions. The main reason for the published dataset is to give a user-friendly product that can be applied in ocean studies where ventilation ages are of interest, both to give an appreciation of typical ages and gradients in the ocean, and to be adopted in studies calculating biogeochemical rates. A recent example of the latter is the updated calcium carbonate dissolution study by Sulpis et al. (2021), which used these data. All included data are listed and specified in the dataset description below, and most of them are identical to the values found in GLODAPv2 (Key et al., 2015; Olsen et al., 2016). The novel addition in this dataset are the ventilation ages. The files contain both the TTD-based mean ages that are calculated as described above, and, calculated tracer ages, which assumes no mixing and are simply derived by matching the observed tracer concentration to the atmospheric history. For the atmospheric history we used (Walker et al. (2000) and Bullister (2015)), updated to 2016 by extrapolating with the same atmospheric evolution rate as the year before. The dataset consists of files covering four regions, following the GLODAPv2 data synthesis product: the Arctic Mediterranean (ARC), The Atlantic Ocean (ATL), the Indian Ocean (IND), and the Pacific Ocean (PAC). The data are provided both in comma separated (.csv) format and in Matlab® format (.mat).

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