Articles | Volume 7, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2745-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-2745-2014
Research article
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26 Aug 2014
Research article |  | 26 Aug 2014

Potential of airborne lidar measurements for cirrus cloud studies

S. Groß, M. Wirth, A. Schäfler, A. Fix, S. Kaufmann, and C. Voigt

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