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Large-scale features of Pliocene climate: results from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project
A. M. Haywood
D. J. Hill
A. M. Dolan
B. L. Otto-Bliesner
W.-L. Chan
M. A. Chandler
C. Contoux
H. J. Dowsett
G. Lohmann
D. J. Lunt
A. Abe-Ouchi
S. J. Pickering
G. Ramstein
N. A. Rosenbloom
U. Salzmann
C. Stepanek
H. Ueda
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