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 # Hoerner Etal Seaice Snowball 2021
 
-Code repository for ICON runscripts and python post processing scripts used in the analysis for "Influence of sea-ice parameterizations on the initiation of a Snowball Earth".
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+Code repository for ICON runscripts and python post processing scripts used in the analysis for "Snowball Earth initiation and the thermodynamics of sea ice".