Ocean Heat Transport and Water Vapor Greenhouse in a Warm Equable Climate: A New Look at the Low Gradient Paradox

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Climate

• Publication date

  2012-03-15

• Fields of study

  Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00547.1
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