Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-523-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-523-2014
Research article
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13 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 13 Mar 2014

The challenge of simulating the warmth of the mid-Miocene climatic optimum in CESM1

A. Goldner, N. Herold, and M. Huber

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