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Cloud variability, radiative forcing and meridional temperature gradients in a general circulation model Cover

Cloud variability, radiative forcing and meridional temperature gradients in a general circulation model

Tellus
Volume 59 (2007): Issue 5
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|Jan 2007
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00265.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 641 - 649
Submitted on: Nov 6, 2006
Accepted on: May 25, 2007
Published on: Jan 1, 2007
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2007 Peter L. Langen, Rodrigo Caballero, published by Stockholm University Press
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