Articles | Volume 11, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-9683-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-9683-2011
Research article
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20 Sep 2011
Research article |  | 20 Sep 2011

Overshooting of clean tropospheric air in the tropical lower stratosphere as seen by the CALIPSO lidar

J.-P. Vernier, J.-P. Pommereau, L. W. Thomason, J. Pelon, A. Garnier, T. Deshler, J. Jumelet, and J. K. Nielsen

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Subject: Aerosols | Research Activity: Remote Sensing | Altitude Range: Troposphere | Science Focus: Physics (physical properties and processes)
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