Barrier layers and tropical Atlantic SST biases in coupled GCMs
By: W.-P. Breugem, P. Chang, C. J. Jang, J. Mignot and W. Hazeleger
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00343.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 885 - 897
Submitted on: Sep 13, 2007
Accepted on: May 13, 2008
Published on: Jan 1, 2008
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