Strength and variability of the deep limb of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation from chlorofluorocarbon inventories

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 173, Issue , 2007, Pages 119-130

  Smethie, William M ^a   LeBel, Deborah A ^a   Fine, Rana A ^b   Rhein, Monika ^c   Kieke, Dagmar ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 80052645794     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/173GM09     Document Type: Chapter

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