An analysis of the vertical velocity field computed by a three-dimensional model in the region of the Bering Strait

Eric Deleersnijder

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v46i2.15447

An analysis of the vertical velocity field computed by a three-dimensional model in the region of the Bering Strait

Tellus

Volume 46 (1994): Issue 2

By: Eric Deleersnijder

Open Access

|Jan 1994

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