How much deep water is formed in the Southern Ocean?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C8, 1998, Pages 15833-15843

  Broecker, W S ^a   Peacock, S L ^a   Walker, S ^b   Weiss, R ^b   Fahrbach, E ^c   Schroeder, M ^c   Mikolajewicz, U ^d   Heinze, C ^d   Key, R ^e   Peng, T H ^f   Rubin, S ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d MaxPlank Institute Fiir Meteorologie   (Germany)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER FORMATION; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; FORMATION WATER; OUTFLOW; TRACER; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0032528590     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(ISSN)2156-2202c     Document Type: Article

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