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Simulated radiative forcing from contrails and contrail cirrus
C.-C. Chen
National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
A. Gettelman
National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, USA
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