Climate variability from annual to multi-decadal timescales in a two-layer stochastic energy balance model: analytic solutions and implications for general circulation models
By: Sergei Soldatenko and Robert Colman
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2018.1554421 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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