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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v67.26442 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Language: English

Page range: 26442 - 26442

Submitted on: Nov 3, 2014

Accepted on: Mar 30, 2015

Published on: Jan 1, 2015

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

albedo,

cloud fraction,

liquid water path,

aerosol effects

© 2015 Anders Engström, Frida A.-M. Bender, Robert J. Charlson, Robert Wood, published by Stockholm University Press
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