Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7511-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7511-2013
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05 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2013

Free troposphere as a major source of CCN for the equatorial pacific boundary layer: long-range transport and teleconnections

A. D. Clarke, S. Freitag, R. M. C. Simpson, J. G. Hudson, S. G. Howell, V. L. Brekhovskikh, T. Campos, V. N. Kapustin, and J. Zhou

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