Articles | Volume 6, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3197-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3197-2013
Research article
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26 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 26 Nov 2013

Towards an automatic lidar cirrus cloud retrieval for climate studies

E. G. Larroza, W. M. Nakaema, R. Bourayou, C. Hoareau, E. Landulfo, and P. Keckhut

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