Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-3027-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-3027-2014
Research article
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26 Mar 2014
Research article |  | 26 Mar 2014

Dust ice nuclei effects on cirrus clouds

M. Kuebbeler, U. Lohmann, J. Hendricks, and B. Kärcher

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