Articles | Volume 17, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14559-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-14559-2017
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07 Dec 2017
Research article |  | 07 Dec 2017

Long-term profiling of mineral dust and pollution aerosol with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at the Central Asian site of Dushanbe, Tajikistan: case studies

Julian Hofer, Dietrich Althausen, Sabur F. Abdullaev, Abduvosit N. Makhmudov, Bakhron I. Nazarov, Georg Schettler, Ronny Engelmann, Holger Baars, K. Wadinga Fomba, Konrad Müller, Bernd Heinold, Konrad Kandler, and Albert Ansmann

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