On the response of the atlantic ocean to climatic changes in high latitudes: Sensitivity studies with a sigma coordinate ocean model

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 126, Issue , 2001, Pages 199-215

  Ezer, Tal ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84873584262     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM126p0199     Document Type: Chapter

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