Shear dispersion and delayed propagation of temperature anomalies along the Norwegian Atlantic Slope Current
By: Sara Broomé and Johan Nilsson
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2018.1453215 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 1453215 - 1453215
Submitted on: Sep 11, 2017
Accepted on: Mar 7, 2018
Published on: Jan 1, 2018
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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