Articles | Volume 9, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3619-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3619-2016
Research article
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09 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 09 Aug 2016

A multi-wavelength classification method for polar stratospheric cloud types using infrared limb spectra

Reinhold Spang, Lars Hoffmann, Michael Höpfner, Sabine Griessbach, Rolf Müller, Michael C. Pitts, Andrew M. W. Orr, and Martin Riese

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