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Ming-Dah Chou NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Atmospheres, Greenbelt, Maryland

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Richard S. Lindzen Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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01 Sep 2002
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<2566:COTCAT>2.0.CO;2
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2566–2570
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Corresponding author address: Dr. Ming-Dah Chou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 913, Greenbelt, MD 20771. Email: chou@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov

Corresponding author address: Dr. Ming-Dah Chou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 913, Greenbelt, MD 20771. Email: chou@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov

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