Nonnormal Perturbation Growth of Pure Thermohaline Circulation Using a 2D Zonally Averaged Model
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physical Oceanography
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1520-0485,0022-3670
DOI: 10.1175/2008jpo3847.1