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Volume transport in the Alaska Coastal Current

James D. Schumacher, Phyllis J. Stabeno, and Andrew T. Roach

NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington

Continental Shelf Research, 9(12), 1071-1083 (1989)
Not subject to U.S. copyright. Published in 1990 by Pergamon Press.

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