Articles | Volume 12, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11383-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11383-2012
Research article
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03 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 03 Dec 2012

Impact of mineral dust on cloud formation in a Saharan outflow region

L. Smoydzin, A. Teller, H. Tost, M. Fnais, and J. Lelieveld

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