Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1689-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1689-2021
Research article
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01 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 01 Mar 2021

Measurement characteristics of an airborne microwave temperature profiler (MTP)

Mareike Heckl, Andreas Fix, Matthias Jirousek, Franz Schreier, Jian Xu, and Markus Rapp

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