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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9067-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9067-2016
Research article
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25 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2016

Ice nucleating particles in the Saharan Air Layer

Yvonne Boose, Berko Sierau, M. Isabel García, Sergio Rodríguez, Andrés Alastuey, Claudia Linke, Martin Schnaiter, Piotr Kupiszewski, Zamin A. Kanji, and Ulrike Lohmann

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