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Research article
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10 May 2012
Research article |
| 10 May 2012
Lidar and radar measurements of the melting layer: observations of dark and bright band phenomena
P. Di Girolamo
Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Fisica dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
D. Summa
Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Fisica dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
M. Cacciani
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
E. G. Norton
School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
G. Peters
Meteorologisches Institut, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Y. Dufournet
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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