Meridional changes in water mass distributions off NW africa during november 2007/2008;Variación latitudinal en la distribución de masas de agua al NO de África durante Noviembre de 2007/2008

Ciencias Marinas

Volumn 38, Issue 1 B, 2012, Pages 223-244

  Pastor, M V ^a   Pena Izquierdo J ^a   Pelegri J L ^a   Marrero Diaz A ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Central waters; Deep waters; Eastern subtropical North Atlantic; Intermediate waters; Optimum multiparameter analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP WATER; GYRE; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CANARY ISLANDS; CAPE BLANC; CAPE VERDE; SPAIN;

EID: 84861976763     PISSN: 01853880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v38i1B.1831     Document Type: Article

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