{"id":26,"date":"2016-01-14T21:03:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:03:49","slug":"tracers-transport-diagnostics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/research\/tracers-transport-diagnostics\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracers &amp; Transport Diagnostics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We aim to identify and understand the tracer-independent transport information contained in ocean tracer data. With collaborators, I have developed some new, powerful theoretical tools. Applications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diagnosing transport pathways, timescales, and water-mass composition in the North Atlantic ocean.<\/li>\n<li><span>Estimating the oceanic burden of anthropogenic carbon\u2014the new methods have distinct advantages. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Diagnosing and understanding the\u00a0dynamics of sea-surface anomalies in temperature, salinity, height, and colour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Interpreting time-lagged correlations from oceanographic timeseries data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I work on this topic with Miguel Jimenez Urias, Wenrui Jiang, Steve Griffies, and <a href=\"http:\/\/eps.jhu.edu\/directory\/darryn-waugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryn Waugh<\/a>. For recent work, see <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/2023\/10\/23\/how-fluid-tracers-spread-new-paper-on-shear-dispersion\/\">Miguel&#8217;s 2023 JFM paper on scalar mixing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2024MS004848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wenrui&#8217;s paper on computing Lagrangian budgets<\/a>, and this <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2024MS004637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review paper on Green&#8217;s function methods for diagnosing tracer pathways and timescales in ocean models<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We aim to identify and understand the tracer-independent transport information contained in ocean tracer data. With collaborators, I have developed some new, powerful theoretical tools. Applications include: Diagnosing transport pathways, timescales, and water-mass composition in the North Atlantic ocean. Estimating the oceanic burden of anthropogenic carbon\u2014the new methods have distinct advantages. Diagnosing and understanding the\u00a0dynamics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":73,"parent":6,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/haine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}