Articles | Volume 7, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2695-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2695-2014
Research article
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26 Aug 2014
Research article |  | 26 Aug 2014

The performance of Aeolus in heterogeneous atmospheric conditions using high-resolution radiosonde data

X. J. Sun, R. W. Zhang, G. J. Marseille, A. Stoffelen, D. Donovan, L. Liu, and J. Zhao

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