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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1397-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1397-2013
Research article
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23 May 2013
Research article |  | 23 May 2013

Aerosol classification from airborne HSRL and comparisons with the CALIPSO vertical feature mask

S. P. Burton, R. A. Ferrare, M. A. Vaughan, A. H. Omar, R. R. Rogers, C. A. Hostetler, and J. W. Hair

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