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Research article
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10 Aug 2015
Research article |
| 10 Aug 2015
Contrail life cycle and properties from 1 year of MSG/SEVIRI rapid-scan images
M. Vázquez-Navarro
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
H. Mannstein
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
deceased
S. Kox
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
now at: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany
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