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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3349-2013
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Intrusion of coastal waters into the pelagic eastern Mediterranean: in situ and satellite-based characterization
S. Efrati
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel 31905, Israel
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
Y. Lehahn
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
Department of Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel
E. Rahav
Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
N. Kress
Israel Oceanographic Limnological Research, The National Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 8030, Tel Shikmona, Haifa 31080, Israel
B. Herut
Israel Oceanographic Limnological Research, The National Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 8030, Tel Shikmona, Haifa 31080, Israel
I. Gertman
Israel Oceanographic Limnological Research, The National Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 8030, Tel Shikmona, Haifa 31080, Israel
R. Goldman
Israel Oceanographic Limnological Research, The National Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 8030, Tel Shikmona, Haifa 31080, Israel
T. Ozer
Israel Oceanographic Limnological Research, The National Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 8030, Tel Shikmona, Haifa 31080, Israel
The Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel 31905, Israel
E. Heifetz
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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