Major advances in the oceanography of the southern Aegean Sea-Cretan Straits system (Eastern Mediterranean)

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 109-130

  Balopoulos, E Th ^a   Theocharis, A ^a   Kontoyiannis, H ^a   Varnavas, S ^b   Voutsinou Taliadouri, F ^a   Iona, A ^a   Souvermezoglou, A ^a   Ignatiades, L ^c   Gotsis Skretas, O ^a   Pavlidou, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; CIRCULATION; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; MEDITERRANEAN DEEP WATER; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY;

(EAST); AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0032730513     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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