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Properties of small cirrus ice crystals from commercial aircraft measurements and implications for flight operations Cover

Properties of small cirrus ice crystals from commercial aircraft measurements and implications for flight operations

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1
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|Jan 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v67.27876 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 27876 - 27876
Submitted on: Mar 15, 2015
Accepted on: Sep 20, 2015
Published on: Jan 1, 2015
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
cirrus clouds,
optical particle spectrometer,
IAGOS

© 2015 Karl Beswick, Darrel Baumgardner, Martin Gallagher, Graciela B. Raga, Patrick Minnis, Douglas A. Spangenberg, Andreas Volz-Thomas, Philippe Nedelec, Kuo-Ying Wang, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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