Ventilation of the deep ocean constrained with tracer observations and implications for radiocarbon estimates of ideal mean age
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Article history: Received 31 May 2011 Received in revised form 12 January 2012 Accepted 31 January 2012 Available online xxxx Editor: G. Henderson
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