Is bottom boundary layer mixing slowly ventilating Greenland Sea deep water?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 215-224

  Visbeck, Martin ^a   Rhein, Monika ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; MIXING;

GREENLAND SEA;

EID: 0034003270     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0215:IBBLMS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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