Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2507-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2507-2013
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05 Mar 2013
Research article |  | 05 Mar 2013

A comparative study of the response of modeled non-drizzling stratocumulus to meteorological and aerosol perturbations

J. L. Petters, H. Jiang, G. Feingold, D. L. Rossiter, D. Khelif, L. C. Sloan, and P. Y. Chuang

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