Articles | Volume 17, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9585-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9585-2017
Research article
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09 Aug 2017
Research article |  | 09 Aug 2017

How do changes in warm-phase microphysics affect deep convective clouds?

Qian Chen, Ilan Koren, Orit Altaratz, Reuven H. Heiblum, Guy Dagan, and Lital Pinto

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