On the spontaneous transition to asymmetric thermohaline circulation
By: Johan Nilsson, Göran Broström and Gösta Walin
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v56i1.14393 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 68 - 78
Submitted on: May 19, 2003
Accepted on: Sep 19, 2003
Published on: Jan 1, 2004
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2004 Johan Nilsson, Göran Broström, Gösta Walin, published by Stockholm University Press
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