Large-scale freshening of intermediate waters in the Pacific and Indian oceans

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6743, 1999, Pages 440-443

  Wong, Annie P S ^a   Bindoff, Nathaniel L ^b   Church, John A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE WATER MASS; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SALINITY;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033614997     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22733     Document Type: Article

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