Articles | Volume 16, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12287-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-12287-2016
Research article
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29 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 29 Sep 2016

Investigation of ice particle habits to be used for ice cloud remote sensing for the GCOM-C satellite mission

Husi Letu, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Jerome Riedi, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Laurent C.-Labonnote, Anthony J. Baran, Takashi M. Nagao, and Miho Sekiguchi

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