Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10325-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-10325-2015
Research article
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21 Sep 2015
Research article |  | 21 Sep 2015

Comprehensive mapping and characteristic regimes of aerosol effects on the formation and evolution of pyro-convective clouds

D. Chang, Y. Cheng, P. Reutter, J. Trentmann, S. M. Burrows, P. Spichtinger, S. Nordmann, M. O. Andreae, U. Pöschl, and H. Su

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