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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1189-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1189-2013
Research article
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08 May 2013
Research article |  | 08 May 2013

Optical thickness and effective radius of Arctic boundary-layer clouds retrieved from airborne nadir and imaging spectrometry

E. Bierwirth, A. Ehrlich, M. Wendisch, J.-F. Gayet, C. Gourbeyre, R. Dupuy, A. Herber, R. Neuber, and A. Lampert

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