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  <attribute name="Contact" value="Nazanin Tavakoli (ntavakol@gmu.edu), Paul A Dirmeyer (pdirmeye@gmu.edu)" />
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  <attribute name="Creation_date" value="2025" />
  <attribute name="Title" value="A Global Dataset of Land–Atmosphere Coupling Metrics Based on Observations for Evaluating Earth System Models" />
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  <attribute name="Acknowledgment" value="This work was supported by National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant award 80NSSC20K1803 and 80NSSC21K1801" />
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