A global diagnostic of interior ocean ventilation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Blanke, Bruno ^a   Speich, Sabrina ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^b   Maugé, Rudy ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; VENTILATION;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; AVERAGE VOLUME; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXED LAYER WATERS; OCEAN VENTILATIONS; REMOTE REGIONS; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037092331     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013727     Document Type: Article

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