Articles | Volume 13, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-9515-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-9515-2013
Research article
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27 Sep 2013
Research article |  | 27 Sep 2013

Mean winds in the MLT, the SQBO and MSAO over Ascension Island (8° S, 14° W)

K. A. Day and N. J. Mitchell

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