The application of radiotracers to a study of Black Sea circulation: Validation of numerical simulations against observed weapons testing and Chernobyl 137Cs data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C5, 1999, Pages 11099-11114

  Staneva, Joanna V ^a   Buesseler, Ken O ^b   Stanev, Emil V ^a   Livingston, Hugh D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RADIONUCLIDE; TRACER;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 0033562273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900121     Document Type: Article

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