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Long-term lidar observations of polar stratospheric clouds at Esrange in northern Sweden

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 57 (2005): Issue 5
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|Jan 2005
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v57i5.16562 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 412 - 422
Submitted on: Nov 15, 2004
Accepted on: May 30, 2005
Published on: Jan 1, 2005
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2005 U. Blum, K. H. Fricke, K. P. Müller, J . Siebert, G. Baumgarten, published by Stockholm University Press
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