Articles | Volume 4, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-795-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-795-2011
Research article
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04 May 2011
Research article |  | 04 May 2011

Can one detect small-scale turbulence from standard meteorological radiosondes?

R. Wilson, F. Dalaudier, and H. Luce

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