Scaling of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in a global ocean model

Henk A. Dijkstra

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00326.x

Scaling of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in a global ocean model

Tellus

Volume 60 (2008): Issue 4

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

Open Access

|Jan 2008

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