Articles | Volume 8, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-823-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-823-2015
Research article
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19 Feb 2015
Research article |  | 19 Feb 2015

Retrieval of daytime total columnar water vapour from MODIS measurements over land surfaces

H. Diedrich, R. Preusker, R. Lindstrot, and J. Fischer

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