Articles | Volume 5, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-5-271-2009
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-5-271-2009
20 Jul 2009
 | 20 Jul 2009

Understanding mixing efficiency in the oceans: do the nonlinearities of the equation of state for seawater matter?

R. Tailleux

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