The hydrography of the mid-latitude northeast Atlantic Ocean I: The deep water masses

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 757-788

  Van Aken, Hendrik M ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; HYDROGRAPHY; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034192064     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00092-8     Document Type: Article

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