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The scientific basis for a satellite mission to retrieve CCN concentrations and their impacts on convective clouds
D. Rosenfeld
Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
E. Williams
Parsons Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
M. O. Andreae
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, P.O. Box 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany
E. Freud
Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
U. Pöschl
Biogeochemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, P.O. Box 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany
N. O. Rennó
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, 1531C Space Research Building, 2455 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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