Diagnosing the entropy budget of a climate model

Klaus Fraedrich; Frank Lunkeit

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00338.x

Diagnosing the entropy budget of a climate model

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Volume 60 (2008): Issue 5

By: Klaus Fraedrich and Frank Lunkeit

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Submitted on: Oct 26, 2007

Accepted on: Apr 14, 2008

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