Mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas: A shifting paradigm

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1837, 2005, Pages 2837-2854

  Rippeth, Tom P ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CO2 pump; Continental shelf; Vertical mixing

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144441148     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1662     Document Type: Review

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