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THE EARTH SYSTEM PREDICTION SUITE Toward a Coordinated US Modeling Capability
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Published Date:2016
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Source:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 97(7), 1229-1247.
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Personal Author:Theurich, G. ; DeLuca, C. ; Campbell, T. ; Liu, F. ; Saint, K. ; Vertenstein, M. ; Chen, J. ; Oehmke, R. ; Doyle, J. ; Whitcomb, T. ; Wallcraft, A. ; Iredell, M. ; Black, T. ; da Silva, A. M. ; Clune, T. ; Ferraro, R. ; Li, P. ; Kelley, M. ; Aleinov, I. ; Balaji, V. ; Zadeh, N. ; Jacob, R. ; Kirtman, B. ; Giraldo, F. ; McCarren, D. ; Sandgathe, S. ; Peckham, S. ; Dunlap, R. Less ▲
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Main Document Checksum:urn:sha256:d0470ff3489956cb53354f50936592482bd79bb259d9bf7e21550cc7266bc4e1
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