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Can limited ocean mixing buffer rapid climate change? Cover

Can limited ocean mixing buffer rapid climate change?

Tellus
Volume 57 (2005): Issue 4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v57i4.14706 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 676 - 690
Submitted on: May 7, 2004
Accepted on: Nov 18, 2004
Published on: Jan 1, 2005
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2005 Kevin I. C. Oliver, Andrew J. Watson, David P. Stevens, published by Stockholm University Press
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