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Observations of water masses and circulation with focus on the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean from the 1990s to the late 2000s
B. Rudels
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
U. Schauer
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, P.O. Box 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
G. Björk
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 460, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
M. Korhonen
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
S. Pisarev
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 36 Nakhimovsky Prospect, Moscow 117997, Russia
B. Rabe
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, P.O. Box 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
A. Wisotzki
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, P.O. Box 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
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