Articles | Volume 13, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11853-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11853-2013
Research article
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09 Dec 2013
Research article |  | 09 Dec 2013

Midlatitude cirrus classification at Rome Tor Vergata through a multichannel Raman–Mie–Rayleigh lidar

D. Dionisi, P. Keckhut, G. L. Liberti, F. Cardillo, and F. Congeduti

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