Chapter 3 Modelling radioactivity in the marine environment: The application of hydrodynamic circulation models for simulating oceanic dispersion of radioactivity

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue C, 2003, Pages 55-85

  Harms, Ingo H ^a   Karcher, Michael J ^b   Burchard, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 77956975596     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(03)80059-1     Document Type: Article

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