Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-317-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-317-2014
Model evaluation paper
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18 Feb 2014
Model evaluation paper |  | 18 Feb 2014

Understanding the performance of the FLake model over two African Great Lakes

W. Thiery, A. Martynov, F. Darchambeau, J.-P. Descy, P.-D. Plisnier, L. Sushama, and N. P. M. van Lipzig

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