Production of dense overflow waters feeding the North Atlantic across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Part 1: Evidence for a revised circulation scheme

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 769-806

  Mauritzen, Cecilie ^a  

^a EPSHOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; DENSE-WATER; OUTFLOW REGIONS; WATER MASS FORMATION;

EID: 0030452852     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0637(96)00037-4     Document Type: Article

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