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High-latitude obliquity as a dominant forcing in the Agulhas current system
T. Caley
Université de Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR5805, EPOC, Bordeaux, France
J.-H. Kim
NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands
B. Malaizé
Université de Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR5805, EPOC, Bordeaux, France
J. Giraudeau
Université de Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR5805, EPOC, Bordeaux, France
T. Laepple
Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI), Bussestrasse 24, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
N. Caillon
LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
K. Charlier
Université de Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR5805, EPOC, Bordeaux, France
H. Rebaubier
LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
L. Rossignol
Université de Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR5805, EPOC, Bordeaux, France
I. S. Castañeda
NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, 611 North Pleasant Street, 233 Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
S. Schouten
NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands
J. S. Sinninghe Damsté
NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, 1790 AB Den Burg, The Netherlands
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