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Using statistical downscaling to assess skill of decadal predictions

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|Jan 2019

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Language: English
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Published on: Jan 1, 2019
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2019 Rasmus Benestad, Louis-Philippe Caron, Kajsa Parding, Maialen Iturbide, Jose Manuel Gutierrez Llorente, Abdelkader Mezghani, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, published by Stockholm University Press
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