Articles | Volume 11, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-1873-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-1873-2014
Research article
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08 Apr 2014
Research article |  | 08 Apr 2014

Do we (need to) care about canopy radiation schemes in DGVMs? Caveats and potential impacts

A. Loew, P. M. van Bodegom, J.-L. Widlowski, J. Otto, T. Quaife, B. Pinty, and T. Raddatz

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