Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-5-713-2009
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-5-713-2009
19 Nov 2009
 | 19 Nov 2009

The response of Mediterranean thermohaline circulation to climate change: a minimal model

P. Th. Meijer and H. A. Dijkstra

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