The climate impact of short-lived pollutants in the Arctic
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1 NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA 2 Clean Air Task Force, Boston, MA, USA 3 Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada 4 NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA 5 National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA 6 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences, New York, NY, USA 7 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 8 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA 9 Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway 10 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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