Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1253-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1253-2021
Research article
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18 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2021

Water vapor density and turbulent fluxes from three generations of infrared gas analyzers

Seth Kutikoff, Xiaomao Lin, Steven R. Evett, Prasanna Gowda, David Brauer, Jerry Moorhead, Gary Marek, Paul Colaizzi, Robert Aiken, Liukang Xu, and Clenton Owensby

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