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Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-155-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-155-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
Research article
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11 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 11 Mar 2014

Geostrophic currents and kinetic energies in the Black Sea estimated from merged drifter and satellite altimetry data

M. Menna and P.-M. Poulain

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