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Salinity-dominated thermohaline circulation in sill basins: can two stable equilibria exist? Cover

Salinity-dominated thermohaline circulation in sill basins: can two stable equilibria exist?

Tellus
Volume 62 (2010): Issue 2
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|Jan 2010
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2009.00428.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 123 - 133
Submitted on: May 19, 2009
Accepted on: Nov 24, 2009
Published on: Jan 1, 2010
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2010 Johan Nilsson, Gösta Walin, published by Stockholm University Press
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