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Articles | Volume 16, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6531-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6531-2023
Model evaluation paper
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15 Nov 2023
Model evaluation paper |  | 15 Nov 2023

Evaluating 3 decades of precipitation in the Upper Colorado River basin from a high-resolution regional climate model

William Rudisill, Alejandro Flores, and Rosemary Carroll

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