Reduction of tropical land region precipitation variability via transpiration
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1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA 2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA 3. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4. Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, IL, USA 5. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Reduction of tropical land region precipitation variability 2 via transpiration
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