Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5573-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5573-2016
Research article
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04 May 2016
Research article |  | 04 May 2016

Aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions in a regional coupled model: the effects of convective parameterisation and resolution

Scott Archer-Nicholls, Douglas Lowe, David M. Schultz, and Gordon McFiggans

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