The mainz vertical wind tunnel facility- a review of 25 years of laboratory experiments on cloud physics and chemistry

Wind Tunnels: Aerodynamics, Models and Experiments

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 69-92

  Diehl, Karoline ^a   Mitra, Subir K ^a   Szakáll, Miklós ^a   Blohn, Nadine von ^a,b   Borrmann, Stephan ^a   Pruppacher, Hans R ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

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