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Dynamical budgets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current using ocean general-circulation models

  1. A. Grezio1,*,
  2. N. C. Wells2,
  3. V. O. Ivchenko2,
  4. B. A. de Cuevas2

Article first published online: 29 DEC 2006

DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.213

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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volume 131, Issue 607, pages 833–860, April 2005 Part A

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Grezio, A., Wells, N. C., Ivchenko, V. O. and de Cuevas, B. A. (2005), Dynamical budgets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current using ocean general-circulation models. Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., 131: 833–860. doi: 10.1256/qj.03.213

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  1. 1

    Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy

  2. 2

    Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK

*Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via D. Creti 12, 40128 Bologna, Italy.

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  1. Issue published online: 29 DEC 2006
  2. Article first published online: 29 DEC 2006
  3. Manuscript Revised: 5 NOV 2004
  4. Manuscript Received: 3 DEC 2003

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