Articles | Volume 14, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1547-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-1547-2014
Technical note
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12 Feb 2014
Technical note |  | 12 Feb 2014

Technical Note: A simple procedure for removing temporal discontinuities in ERA-Interim upper stratospheric temperatures for use in nudged chemistry-climate model simulations

C. McLandress, D. A. Plummer, and T. G. Shepherd

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