Sensitivity of Deep Ocean Mixing to Local Internal Tide Breaking and Mixing Efficiency
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0094-8276,1944-8007
DOI: 10.1029/2019gl085056