Articles | Volume 12, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11135-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11135-2012
Research article
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23 Nov 2012
Research article |  | 23 Nov 2012

Observational constraints on entrainment and the entrainment interface layer in stratocumulus

J. K. Carman, D. L. Rossiter, D. Khelif, H. H. Jonsson, I. C. Faloona, and P. Y. Chuang

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