Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-6789-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-6789-2015
Research article
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18 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 18 Jun 2015

Influence of biomass aerosol on precipitation over the Central Amazon: an observational study

W. A. Gonçalves, L. A. T. Machado, and P.-E. Kirstetter

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