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Spring-summer imbalance of dissolved inorganic carbon in the mixed layer of the northwestern Sargasso Sea Cover

Spring-summer imbalance of dissolved inorganic carbon in the mixed layer of the northwestern Sargasso Sea

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|Jan 1996

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Language: English
Page range: 115 - 134
Submitted on: Feb 10, 1994
Accepted on: Aug 1, 1995
Published on: Jan 1, 1996
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