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Original Articles

Surface temperature sensitivities from cloud cover variations in the Hummel-Kuhn radiative” “convective model with three different cloud approximations

Pages 439-443 | Received 05 May 1980, Accepted 23 Oct 1980, Published online: 15 Dec 2016

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