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A thermostat in the tropics?

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  1. Rong Fu: Also at Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA

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  2. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, New York, 10025, USA

    Anthony D. Del Genio & William B. Rossow

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Fu, R., Liu, W., Genio, A. et al. A thermostat in the tropics?. Nature 361, 412 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/361412a0

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