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Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER, 2010, Pages 14-25

  Horton, Radley ^a   Rosenzweig, Cynthia ^b   Ramaswamy, V ^c   Kinney, Patrick ^d   Mathur, Rohit ^e   Pleim, Jonathan ^f   Rao, V Brahmananda ^g  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)   (Brazil)

^d Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^e Plant Protection Agency   (Brazil)

^f EPA's AMAD   (Brazil)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

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