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    S.M. Sainz-Trapaga, G.J. Goni, and T. Sugimoto. Indentification of the Kuroshio Extension, its Bifurcation and Northern Branch from Altimetry and Hydrographic Data: Spatial and Temporal Variability Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.

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