OCEAN 210 Lecture 5: Property Budgets II
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All diagrams taken from "ocn210_topic1_lect2. ppt" and "ocn210_topic1_lect3. ppt"on the course canvas website. Input or output rate depends on the size of the reservoir: pressure is what causes water to drain out of the tub, so a tall skinny tub would drain faster than a shallow wide one. "k" tells us about the geometry and pressure. If someone dumped a bucket of water in the tub in steady sate, the output exceeds the input, causing the volume to decrease until it reaches steady state again. Residence time (tres: the average time stuff remains in a reservoir after entering, amount in reservoir (m3) / input rate (m3/t) gives residence time in units of t, residence time is an average. Input: precipitation and runoff: output: evaporation, all happen at the surface of the ocean, so get deposited and evaporated and some go down to the deep ocean and need to make their way back up before evaporating.
