Articles | Volume 12, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-12081-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-12081-2012
Research article
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20 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 20 Dec 2012

On the origin of subvisible cirrus clouds in the tropical upper troposphere

M. Reverdy, V. Noel, H. Chepfer, and B. Legras

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