Why is there a tritium maximum in the central equatorial pacific thermocline?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1527-1533

  Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Huang, Boyin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOCLINE; TRITIUM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032443493     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1527:WITATM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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