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Edited by John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, and approved June 27, 2014 (received for review May 23, 2014)
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- Published in issue August 12, 2014.
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- aRosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149;
- bSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea; and
- cNational Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Asheville, NC 28801
Edited by John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, and approved June 27, 2014 (received for review May 23, 2014)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: b.soden{at}miami.edu.
Author contributions: E.-S.C. and B.S. designed research; E.-S.C. and B.S. performed research; E.-S.C., B.S., B.J.S., and L.S. analyzed data; and E.-S.C., B.S., and B.J.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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