Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-877-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-877-2014
Research article
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24 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2014

A new method for evaluating the impact of vertical distribution on aerosol radiative forcing in general circulation models

M. R. Vuolo, M. Schulz, Y. Balkanski, and T. Takemura

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