Articles | Volume 4, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-557-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-557-2011
17 Mar 2011
 | 17 Mar 2011

A comparison of light backscattering and particle size distribution measurements in tropical cirrus clouds

F. Cairo, G. Di Donfrancesco, M. Snels, F. Fierli, M. Viterbini, S. Borrmann, and W. Frey

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