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Microphysical and optical properties of dust and tropical biomass burning aerosol layers in the Cape Verde region—an overview of the airborne in situ and lidar measurements during SAMUM-2 Cover

Microphysical and optical properties of dust and tropical biomass burning aerosol layers in the Cape Verde region—an overview of the airborne in situ and lidar measurements during SAMUM-2

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Language: English
Page range: 589 - 618
Submitted on: Dec 23, 2010
Accepted on: Jun 6, 2011
Published on: Jan 1, 2011
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2011 Bernadett Weinzierl, Daniel Sauer, Michael Esselborn, Andreas Petzold, Andreas Veira, Maximilian Rose, Susanne Mund, Martin Wirth, Albert Ansmann, Matthias Tesche, Silke Gross, Volker Freudenthaler, published by Stockholm University Press
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