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VI. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS gray 
Our research is funded through the “Gestion des Impacts du Changement Climatique (GICC)”, a program supported by the 
French “Ministere de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement (MEDDTL)". The authors 
would like also to thank Dr. Antonio Güell, Head of the Application and Valorization department at CNES. Tourre would 
like to thank Dr. Philippe Dandin, Director of the Climatology department at Méteo-France and Dr. Mike Purdy recently 
appointed Columbia University's Executive Vice President for Research, for facilitating this applied research. * Ke: 
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