Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-315-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-315-2014
Research article
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30 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2014

The role of urban boundary layer investigated with high-resolution models and ground-based observations in Rome area: a step towards understanding parameterization potentialities

E. Pichelli, R. Ferretti, M. Cacciani, A. M. Siani, V. Ciardini, and T. Di Iorio

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