Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-6-573-2010
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-6-573-2010
14 Jun 2010
 | 14 Jun 2010

Importance of the variability of hydrographic preconditioning for deep convection in the Gulf of Lion, NW Mediterranean

L. Grignon, D. A. Smeed, H. L. Bryden, and K. Schroeder

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