Articles | Volume 8, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1339-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1339-2015
Model description paper
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12 May 2015
Model description paper |  | 12 May 2015

Development of the GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model: evolution from MERRA to MERRA2

A. Molod, L. Takacs, M. Suarez, and J. Bacmeister

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