Articles | Volume 16, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10083-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10083-2016
Research article
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11 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 11 Aug 2016

Changes in the width of the tropical belt due to simple radiative forcing changes in the GeoMIP simulations

Nicholas A. Davis, Dian J. Seidel, Thomas Birner, Sean M. Davis, and Simone Tilmes

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