Rates of North Atlantic Deep Water formation calculated from chlorofluorocarbon inventories

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 189-215

  Smethie Jr , William M ^a   Fine, Rana A ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

CFC inventories; North Atlantic Deep Water; Water mass formation rates

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHLOROFLUOROCARBON; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENLAND; ICELAND; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEA WATER; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW; WATER SAMPLING;

CFC; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORMATION WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035218547     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(00)00048-0     Document Type: Article

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