Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-391-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-391-2015
Research article
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21 May 2015
Research article |  | 21 May 2015

Friction and mixing effects on potential vorticity for bottom current crossing a marine strait: an application to the Sicily Channel (central Mediterranean Sea)

F. Falcini and E. Salusti

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