Year-long float trajectories in the Labrador Sea Water of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 165-179

  Speer, Kevin G ^a,b   Gould, John ^a   Lacasce, Joseph ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIFTER; LABRADOR SEA WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TRAJECTORY; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032908077     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(98)00103-9     Document Type: Article

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