Salinity Gradient Energy at River Mouths

Environmental Science and Technology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 410-415

  Alvarez Silva, Oscar ^a   Winter, Christian ^b   Osorio, Andres F ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 84969216928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ez500239n     Document Type: Article

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