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Review article
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02 Jun 2014
Review article |
| 02 Jun 2014
G band atmospheric radars: new frontiers in cloud physics
A. Battaglia
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, UK
C. D. Westbrook
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
S. Kneifel
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
P. Kollias
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
N. Humpage
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, UK
U. Löhnert
Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
J. Tyynelä
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
G. W. Petty
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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