Articles | Volume 11, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2111-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2111-2017
Brief communication
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07 Sep 2017
Brief communication |  | 07 Sep 2017

Brief communication: Increasing shortwave absorption over the Arctic Ocean is not balanced by trends in the Antarctic

Christian Katlein, Stefan Hendricks, and Jeffrey Key

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