Using Chemical Tracers to Assess Ocean Models

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-70

  England, Matthew H ^a   Maier Reimer, Ernst ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TRACER;

EID: 0035057583     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998RG000043     Document Type: Article

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