Optimum multiparameter analysis of the water mass structure in the Atlantic Ocean thermocline

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1895-1921

  Poole, Robert ^a   Tomczak, Matthias ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHY; THERMOCLINE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032872419     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00025-4     Document Type: Article

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