Articles | Volume 8, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-8-915-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-8-915-2012
Research article
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30 Oct 2012
Research article |  | 30 Oct 2012

Characteristics of the seasonal cycle of surface layer salinity in the global ocean

F. M. Bingham, G. R. Foltz, and M. J. McPhaden

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