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03 Jun 2015
Research article |
| 03 Jun 2015
The shape of the oceanic nitracline
M. M. Omand
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
A. Mahadevan
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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