The West Spitsbergen Current: Disposition and water mass transformation

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• Publication year

  1987

• Venue

  Journal of Geophysical Research

• Publication date

  1987-04-15

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1029/JC092IC04P03778
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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