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responsible for the excessive simulation of COLs between<br />
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5. Acknowledgments<br />
This work was funded by FAPESP process N o . 04/02446,<br />
CAPES process N o . BEX 0626/08-2, and CNPq process<br />
N o 476361/2006-0. The authors would also like to thank<br />
ICTP for provided the RegCM3 code and NCEP by<br />
reanalyzes data set.<br />
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