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Time scale of the large-scale ocean mixing and circulation. Image credit: V. Byfield, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), licensed under CC BY 3.0. The original figure was modified with mean age indications of water masses since their last contact with atmosphere; the age indications are based on ideal age tracers following refs. 135 and 136).
