Articles | Volume 5, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-1409-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-5-1409-2012
Research article
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25 Jun 2012
Research article |  | 25 Jun 2012

An intercomparison of radar-based liquid cloud microphysics retrievals and implications for model evaluation studies

D. Huang, C. Zhao, M. Dunn, X. Dong, G. G. Mace, M. P. Jensen, S. Xie, and Y. Liu

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