Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1351-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1351-2014
Research article
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19 May 2014
Research article |  | 19 May 2014

Observing wind, aerosol particles, cloud and precipitation: Finland's new ground-based remote-sensing network

A. Hirsikko, E. J. O'Connor, M. Komppula, K. Korhonen, A. Pfüller, E. Giannakaki, C. R. Wood, M. Bauer-Pfundstein, A. Poikonen, T. Karppinen, H. Lonka, M. Kurri, J. Heinonen, D. Moisseev, E. Asmi, V. Aaltonen, A. Nordbo, E. Rodriguez, H. Lihavainen, A. Laaksonen, K. E. J. Lehtinen, T. Laurila, T. Petäjä, M. Kulmala, and Y. Viisanen

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