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The faint young Sun problem revisited with a 3-D climate–carbon model – Part 1
G. Le Hir
IPGP, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR7154, 75005, France
Y. Teitler
IPGP, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR7154, 75005, France
now at: Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
F. Fluteau
IPGP, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR7154, 75005, France
Y. Donnadieu
LSCE, CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
P. Philippot
IPGP, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR7154, 75005, France
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