Articles | Volume 9, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5655-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-5655-2016
Research article
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28 Nov 2016
Research article |  | 28 Nov 2016

Parameterization retrieval of trace gas volume mixing ratios from Airborne MAX-DOAS

Barbara Dix, Theodore K. Koenig, and Rainer Volkamer

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