Tug of war on summertime circulation between radiative forcing and sea surface warming

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 560-566

  Shaw, T A ^a,b,c,d   Voigt, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

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EID: 84934289143     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2449     Document Type: Article

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