Impact of prescribed SSTs on climatologies and long-term trends in CCM simulations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 6017-6031

  Garny, H ^a   Dameris, M ^a   Stenke, A ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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EID: 84864524339     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-6017-2009     Document Type: Article

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