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Articles | Volume 16, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6087-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6087-2023
Model description paper
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01 Nov 2023
Model description paper |  | 01 Nov 2023

Description and performance of a sectional aerosol microphysical model in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)

Simone Tilmes, Michael J. Mills, Yunqian Zhu, Charles G. Bardeen, Francis Vitt, Pengfei Yu, David Fillmore, Xiaohong Liu, Brian Toon, and Terry Deshler

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