Tritium distributions in an isopycnic model of the North Atlantic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C5, 1996, Pages 11883-11901

  Jia, Yanli ^a   Richards, Kelvin J ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELLING; ISOPYCNIC LAYERS; TRACER; TRITIUM;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0000178479     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95JC03674     Document Type: Article

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