Ground-based water vapour soundings by microwave radiometry and Raman lidar on Jungfraujoch (Swiss Alps)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2171-2179

  Gerber, D ^a   Balin, I ^b   Feist, D G ^a   Kampfer N ^a   Simeonov, V ^b   Calpini, B ^b,c   van den Bergh, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c MétéoSuisse   (Switzerland)

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EID: 10844276550     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-4-2171-2004     Document Type: Article

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