Global heat and salt transports by eddy movement

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Dong, Changming ^a,b,c   McWilliams, James C ^b   Liu, Yu ^c   Chen, Dake ^a  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84894384009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4294     Document Type: Article

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