Articles | Volume 13, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-6951-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-6951-2013
Research article
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23 Jul 2013
Research article |  | 23 Jul 2013

A decadal cirrus clouds climatology from ground-based and spaceborne lidars above the south of France (43.9° N–5.7° E)

C. Hoareau, P. Keckhut, V. Noel, H. Chepfer, and J.-L. Baray

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