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01 Feb 2010
Thermodynamic properties of sea air
R. Feistel
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, 18119 Warnemünde, Germany
D. G. Wright
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
H.-J. Kretzschmar
Department of Technical Thermodynamics, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, 02763 Zittau, Germany
E. Hagen
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, 18119 Warnemünde, Germany
S. Herrmann
Department of Technical Thermodynamics, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, 02763 Zittau, Germany
R. Span
Lehrstuhl für Thermodynamik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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