Articles | Volume 12, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-6609-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-6609-2012
Research article
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26 Jul 2012
Research article |  | 26 Jul 2012

Observations and modelling of microphysical variability, aggregation and sedimentation in tropical anvil cirrus outflow regions

M. W. Gallagher, P. J. Connolly, I. Crawford, A. Heymsfield, K. N. Bower, T. W. Choularton, G. Allen, M. J. Flynn, G. Vaughan, and J. Hacker

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