Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2639-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2639-2014
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14 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 14 Mar 2014

Cloud-scale ice-supersaturated regions spatially correlate with high water vapor heterogeneities

M. Diao, M. A. Zondlo, A. J. Heymsfield, L. M. Avallone, M. E. Paige, S. P. Beaton, T. Campos, and D. C. Rogers

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