Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1167-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1167-2019
Research article
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25 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 25 Feb 2019

Cloud geometry from oxygen-A-band observations through an aircraft side window

Tobias Zinner, Ulrich Schwarz, Tobias Kölling, Florian Ewald, Evelyn Jäkel, Bernhard Mayer, and Manfred Wendisch

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