Thermodynamic regulation of ocean warming by cirrus clouds deduced from observations of the 1987 El Niño

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• Publication year

  1991

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1991-05-02

• Fields of study

  Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/351027A0
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