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Variable source regions of Denmark Strait and Faroe Bank Channel overflow waters

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Language: English
Page range: 551 - 568
Submitted on: Aug 5, 2009
Accepted on: Mar 23, 2010
Published on: Jan 1, 2010
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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