Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1469-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1469-2015
Research article
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23 Mar 2015
Research article |  | 23 Mar 2015

Investigating bias in the application of curve fitting programs to atmospheric time series

P. A. Pickers and A. C. Manning

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