Remote sensing of water cloud droplet size distributions using the backscatter glory: A case study

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1255-1263

  Mayer, Bernhard ^a   Schroder M ^b   Preusker, R ^b   Schuller L ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 4744345885     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-4-1255-2004     Document Type: Article

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