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Metadata
- Authors
- Zheng, J., & Suh, S.
- Venue
- Nature Climate Change
- Published
- 2019-04-15
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 374-378
- ISSN
- 1758-678X (ISSN-L)
- 1758-6798
- OpenAlex
- W2938186730
- Cited by
- 1,252
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 44.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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