Articles | Volume 15, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7725-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7725-2015
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15 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 15 Jul 2015

Deriving polarization properties of desert-reflected solar spectra with PARASOL data

W. Sun, R. R. Baize, C. Lukashin, and Y. Hu

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