The stable isotope composition of waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C3, 1996, Pages 6441-6451

  Gat, Joel R ^a   Shemesh, Aldo ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^a   Hecht, Artur ^b   Georgopoulos, Dimitri ^c   Basturk, Ozden ^d  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; WATER MASSES;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0029728762     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95JC02829     Document Type: Article

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