Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-5851-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-5851-2015
Research article
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27 May 2015
Research article |  | 27 May 2015

Large eddy simulation of ship tracks in the collapsed marine boundary layer: a case study from the Monterey area ship track experiment

A. H. Berner, C. S. Bretherton, and R. Wood

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