Recent changes in deep water formation and spreading in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A review

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 5-36

  Lascaratos, Alex ^a   Roether, Wolfgang ^b   Nittis, Kostas ^c   Klein, Birgit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DEEP WATER FORMATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032712365     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00019-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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