It is indeed an article though you and the comment you're 'correcting' leave out the word 'research'. Articles submitted by scholars and scientists with their

It is indeed an article though you and the comment you're 'correcting' leave out the word 'research'. Articles submitted by scholars and scientists with their groundbreaking research are termed as research articles. The article describes a model of what might be as in climate models. As you say, we also use the word 'paper' with 'peer-reviewed' if it's published in a peer-reviewed journal.