Articles | Volume 11, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-8363-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-8363-2011
Research article
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17 Aug 2011
Research article |  | 17 Aug 2011

The variability of tropical ice cloud properties as a function of the large-scale context from ground-based radar-lidar observations over Darwin, Australia

A. Protat, J. Delanoë, P. T. May, J. Haynes, C. Jakob, E. O'Connor, M. Pope, and M. C. Wheeler

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