Articles | Volume 16, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016
Research article
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25 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 25 Apr 2016

Resolving ice cloud optical thickness biases between CALIOP and MODIS using infrared retrievals

Robert E. Holz, Steven Platnick, Kerry Meyer, Mark Vaughan, Andrew Heidinger, Ping Yang, Gala Wind, Steven Dutcher, Steven Ackerman, Nandana Amarasinghe, Fredrick Nagle, and Chenxi Wang

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