On the relationship between dense water formation and the 'Meridional Overturning Cell' in the North Atlantic Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 877-894

  Mauritzen, C ^a,b   Hakkinen S ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033134656     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00094-6     Document Type: Article

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