Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1427-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1427-2020
Research article
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30 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 30 Mar 2020

The 2018 fire season in North America as seen by TROPOMI: aerosol layer height intercomparisons and evaluation of model-derived plume heights

Debora Griffin, Christopher Sioris, Jack Chen, Nolan Dickson, Andrew Kovachik, Martin de Graaf, Swadhin Nanda, Pepijn Veefkind, Enrico Dammers, Chris A. McLinden, Paul Makar, and Ayodeji Akingunola

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