Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5007-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5007-2018
Research article
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04 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 04 Sep 2018

WIRA-C: a compact 142-GHz-radiometer for continuous middle-atmospheric wind measurements

Jonas Hagen, Axel Murk, Rolf Rüfenacht, Sergey Khaykin, Alain Hauchecorne, and Niklaus Kämpfer

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