Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-9-931-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-9-931-2013
Research article
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30 Oct 2013
Research article |  | 30 Oct 2013

The circulation of Icelandic waters – a modelling study

K. Logemann, J. Ólafsson, Á. Snorrason, H. Valdimarsson, and G. Marteinsdóttir

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