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Horizontal scales of ice-supersaturated regions

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 68 (2016): Issue 1
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|Jan 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v68.29020 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 29020 - 29020
Submitted on: Jun 30, 2015
Accepted on: Jan 21, 2016
Published on: Jan 1, 2016
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
ice supersaturation,
multiple scales,
ice clouds

© 2016 Peter Spichtinger, Martin Leschner, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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