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Short Contribution

A note on the relation between average age and average transit time in natural reservoirs

Pages 185-188 | Received 17 Sep 1976, Accepted 04 Jul 1977, Published online: 15 Dec 2016
 

Abstract

A general relation between the average age and the transit time distribution of material in a reservoir at steady state is derived. Given the average transit time, it is shown that the average age increases with increasing standard deviation in the transit time distribution.