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Seasonal to inter-annual variability of temperature and salinity in the Greenland Sea Gyre: heat and freshwater budgets

  1. KATRIN LATARIUS*,
  2. DETLEF QUADFASEL

Article first published online: 5 APR 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00453.x

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Tellus A

Special Issue: Cyclones and the North Atlantic climate system

Volume 62, Issue 4, pages 497–515, August 2010

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LATARIUS, K. and QUADFASEL, D. (2010), Seasonal to inter-annual variability of temperature and salinity in the Greenland Sea Gyre: heat and freshwater budgets. Tellus A, 62: 497–515. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00453.x

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  1. Institut für Meereskunde, KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany

* Corresponding author. e-mail: katrin.latarius@zmaw.de

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  1. Issue published online: 8 JUL 2010
  2. Article first published online: 5 APR 2010
  3. (Manuscript received 19 August 2009; in final form 29 March 2010)

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