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Lijing Cheng1,2, John Abraham3, Kevin E Trenberth4,5

  • 1International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029 China.

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
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PubMed

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