Articles | Volume 6, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-517-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-517-2013
Model experiment description paper
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24 Apr 2013
Model experiment description paper |  | 24 Apr 2013

Simulations of the mid-Pliocene Warm Period using two versions of the NASA/GISS ModelE2-R Coupled Model

M. A. Chandler, L. E. Sohl, J. A. Jonas, H. J. Dowsett, and M. Kelley

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