Articles | Volume 6, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1053-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1053-2013
Research article
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22 Apr 2013
Research article |  | 22 Apr 2013

On the characteristics of ASCAT wind direction ambiguities

W. Lin, M. Portabella, A. Stoffelen, and A. Verhoef

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