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Stratosphere amplifies the global climate effect of wildfires

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  1. Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Ke Wei, Wen Chen & Chunjiang Zhou

  2. Beijing Meteorological Service, Beijing, 100089, China

    Luyang Xu

  3. College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Chunjiang Zhou

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Wei, K., Chen, W., Xu, L. et al. Stratosphere amplifies the global climate effect of wildfires. Sci. China Earth Sci. 63, 309–311 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9560-3

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