Articles | Volume 8, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1509-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1509-2015
Development and technical paper
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21 May 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 21 May 2015

The Met Office Global Coupled model 2.0 (GC2) configuration

K. D. Williams, C. M. Harris, A. Bodas-Salcedo, J. Camp, R. E. Comer, D. Copsey, D. Fereday, T. Graham, R. Hill, T. Hinton, P. Hyder, S. Ineson, G. Masato, S. F. Milton, M. J. Roberts, D. P. Rowell, C. Sanchez, A. Shelly, B. Sinha, D. N. Walters, A. West, T. Woollings, and P. K. Xavier

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