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Articles | Volume 11, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4217-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-4217-2018
Research article
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18 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 18 Jul 2018

All-sky information content analysis for novel passive microwave instruments in the range from 23.8 to 874.4 GHz

Verena Grützun, Stefan A. Buehler, Lukas Kluft, Jana Mendrok, Manfred Brath, and Patrick Eriksson

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