Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2435-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2435-2013
Research article
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01 Mar 2013
Research article |  | 01 Mar 2013

Airborne high spectral resolution lidar observation of pollution aerosol during EUCAARI-LONGREX

S. Groß, M. Esselborn, F. Abicht, M. Wirth, A. Fix, and A. Minikin

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