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A global climatology of upper-tropospheric ice supersaturation occurrence inferred from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder calibrated by MOZAIC
N. Lamquin
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR8539, CNRS/IPSL – Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
C. J. Stubenrauch
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, UMR8539, CNRS/IPSL – Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
K. Gierens
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
U. Burkhardt
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
H. Smit
Forschungzentrum Jülich, Institut für Chemie der belasteten Atmosphäre (ICG2), Jülich, Germany
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