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Freshwater forcing as a booster of thermohaline circulation Cover

Freshwater forcing as a booster of thermohaline circulation

Tellus
Volume 53 (2001): Issue 5
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|Jan 2001
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v53i5.12232 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 629 - 641
Submitted on: Nov 1, 2000
Accepted on: Apr 27, 2001
Published on: Jan 1, 2001
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2001 Johan Nilsson, Gösta Walin, published by Stockholm University Press
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