Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1261-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1261-2016
Research article
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24 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 24 Mar 2016

The Aerosol Limb Imager: acousto-optic imaging of limb-scattered sunlight for stratospheric aerosol profiling

B. J. Elash, A. E. Bourassa, P. R. Loewen, N. D. Lloyd, and D. A. Degenstein

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