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-# Code repository for publication "Tug-of-war on idealized midlatitude cyclones between radiative heating from low-level and high-level clouds
+# Code repository for publication "Tug-of-war on idealized midlatitude cyclones between radiative heating from low-level and high-level clouds"
 
 The paper is published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters.