A modelling study of the Bjerknes compensation in the meridional heat transport in a freshening ocean
By: Haijun Yang, Yuxing Wang and Zhengyu Liu
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.18480 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 18480 - 18480
Submitted on: Apr 4, 2012
Accepted on: Apr 4, 2013
Published on: Dec 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2013 Haijun Yang, Yuxing Wang, Zhengyu Liu, published by Stockholm University Press
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