Mixing in the Romanche Fracture Zone

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1929-1945

  Ferron, Bruno ^a,d   Mercier, Herlé ^a   Speer, Kevin ^a   Gargett, Ann ^b   Polzin, Kurt ^c  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; FRACTURE ZONE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; MIXING; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032988646     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<1929:MITRFZ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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