Articles | Volume 17, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6679-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6679-2017
Research article
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07 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 07 Jun 2017

Continuous vertical aerosol profiling with a multi-wavelength Raman polarization lidar over the Pearl River Delta, China

Birgit Heese, Holger Baars, Stephanie Bohlmann, Dietrich Althausen, and Ruru Deng

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