Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4605-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4605-2013
Research article
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03 May 2013
Research article |  | 03 May 2013

Improved SAGE II cloud/aerosol categorization and observations of the Asian tropopause aerosol layer: 1989–2005

L. W. Thomason and J.-P. Vernier

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