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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com JOURNAL OF science (oineers M A R | N E Mi SYSTEMS ELS IER Journal of Marine Systems 48 (2004) v—vi www.elsevier.com/locate/jmarsys Special Issue Tracer Methods in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Selected Papers from the 34" International Liége Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics May 6-10, 2002, Liege, Belgium edited by Eric J.M. Delhez’, Eric Deleersnijder” and Michel Rixen‘ “Université de Liége, Centre Interfacultaire MARE, Liége, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique G. Lemditre, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium “NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy CONTENTS Preface Research Papers Using OMP analysis to observe temporal variability in water mass distribution H. Leffanue and M. Tomezak Evaluation of OCMIP-2 ocean models’ deep circulation with mantle helium-3 J.-C. Dutay, P. Jean-Baptiste, J.-M. Campin, A. Ishida, E. Maier-Reimer, R.J. Matear, A. Mouchet, I.J. Totterdell, Y. Yamanaka, K. Rodgers, G. Madec and J.C. Orr Red Sea deep water circulation and ventilation rate deduced from the *He and '“C tracer fields P. Jean-Baptiste, E. Fourré, N. Metzl, J.F. Ternon and A. Poisson Tracer age symmetry in advective—diffusive flows T.M. Hall and T.W.N. Haine Symmetry and asymmetry of water ages in a one-dimensional flow E. Deleersnijder and E.J.M. Delhez Ages and age spectra of Eastern Mediterranean Deep Water R. Steinfeldt Contents Physical and biochemical averaged vertical profiles in the Mediterranean regions: an important tool to trace the climatology of water masses and to validate incoming data from operational oceanography B. Manca, M. Burca, A. Giorgetti, C. Coatanoan, M.-J. Garcia and A. Iona Application of inverse technique to study radioactive pollution and mixing processes in the Arctic Seas L.M. Ivanov, T.M. Margolina and A.I. Danilov Sea ice fluxes and drift trajectories from potential pollution sources, computed with a statistical sea ice model of the Arctic Ocean V. Pavlov, O. Pavlova and R. Korsnes Particle tracking method in the approach for prediction of oil slick transport in the sea: modelling oil pollution resulting from river input K.A. Korotenko, R.M. Mamedov, A.E. Kontar and L.A. Korotenko Interpretation of tracer experiments with fine-grained dredging material at the Belgian Continental Shelf by the use of numerical models D. Van den Eynde Author Index Vol. 48, 2004 Keyword Index Vol. 48, 2004