Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2605-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2605-2014
Research article
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14 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 14 Mar 2014

The Arctic summer atmosphere: an evaluation of reanalyses using ASCOS data

C. Wesslén, M. Tjernström, D. H. Bromwich, G. de Boer, A. M. L. Ekman, L.-S. Bai, and S.-H. Wang

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