We describe the utility of false rings in
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10378196
- Publisher / Repository:
- IOP Publishing
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- Environmental Research Letters
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 11
- ISSN:
- 1748-9326
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- Article No. 114030
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- National Science Foundation
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