Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-519-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-519-2015
Research article
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15 Jan 2015
Research article |  | 15 Jan 2015

A global survey of cloud overlap based on CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements

J. Li, J. Huang, K. Stamnes, T. Wang, Q. Lv, and H. Jin

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