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Tracer and Timescale Methods for Understanding Complex Geophysical and Environmental Processes
Understanding advective-diffusive transport and production/destruction processes of trace constituents in natural fluid flows is an important challenge in Earth and environmental sciences with many diverse applications. Moreover, geophysical and environmental models routinely produce huge amounts of real numbers. To make sense of them, computer graphics is not sufficient, and has to be complemented with specific interpretation methods. Among them, an approach that is progressively becoming popular consists in using real or hypothetical tracers to tag fluid masses and estimating associated timescales, i.e. age, residence time, transit time, etc. Such timescales lead to very helpful diagnoses that are increasingly applied in interdisciplinary environmental studies. The workshop/school will review what has been achieved so far in this field of research and suggest new developments.
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