The MERRA-2 Aerosol Reanalysis, 1980 - onward, Part I: System Description and Data Assimilation Evaluation.

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  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Climate

• Publication date

  2017-07-27

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  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0609.1PMID 29576684PMCID PMC5859955
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