Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-4339-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-4339-2015
Research article
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29 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2015

Quantifying pyroconvective injection heights using observations of fire energy: sensitivity of spaceborne observations of carbon monoxide

S. Gonzi, P. I. Palmer, R. Paugam, M. Wooster, and M. N. Deeter

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