Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7895-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-7895-2013
Research article
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15 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 15 Aug 2013

Influence of observed diurnal cycles of aerosol optical depth on aerosol direct radiative effect

A. Arola, T. F. Eck, J. Huttunen, K. E. J. Lehtinen, A. V. Lindfors, G. Myhre, A. Smirnov, S. N. Tripathi, and H. Yu

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