Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1527-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1527-2014
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, C. D. Westbrook, S. Kneifel, P. Kollias, N. Humpage, U. Löhnert, J. Tyynelä, and G. W. Petty

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