An additional deep-water mass in Drake Passage as revealed by 3He data

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1079-1098

  Well, Roland ^a,c   Roether, Wolfgang ^a   Stevens, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c T SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

3He; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Deep ocean; Interocean exchange; Primordial helium; Water mass analysis

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ADMIXTURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WATER; CURRENT; DEEP WATER; HELIUM ISOTOPE; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTICA; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0242370864     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(03)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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