Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-127-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-127-2014
Research article
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24 Feb 2014
Research article |  | 24 Feb 2014

The instability of diffusive convection and its implication for the thermohaline staircases in the deep Arctic Ocean

S.-Q. Zhou, L. Qu, Y.-Z. Lu, and X.-L. Song

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