Articles | Volume 16, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15219-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-15219-2016
Research article
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08 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 08 Dec 2016

Interannual variations of early winter Antarctic polar stratospheric cloud formation and nitric acid observed by CALIOP and MLS

Alyn Lambert, Michelle L. Santee, and Nathaniel J. Livesey

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