Articles | Volume 12, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11933-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-11933-2012
Research article
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17 Dec 2012
Research article |  | 17 Dec 2012

Dynamical characteristics of ice supersaturated regions

K. Gierens and S. Brinkop

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