Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5535-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5535-2016
Research article
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22 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 22 Nov 2016

Aerosol data assimilation in the chemical transport model MOCAGE during the TRAQA/ChArMEx campaign: aerosol optical depth

Bojan Sič, Laaziz El Amraoui, Andrea Piacentini, Virginie Marécal, Emanuele Emili, Daniel Cariolle, Michael Prather, and Jean-Luc Attié

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