Water Balance in the Amazon Basin from a Land Surface Model Ensemble
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hydrometeorology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1525-755X,1525-7541
DOI: 10.1175/jhm-d-14-0068.1