Articles | Volume 12, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-5309-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-5309-2012
Research article
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18 Jun 2012
Research article |  | 18 Jun 2012

Thermal structure of intense convective clouds derived from GPS radio occultations

R. Biondi, W. J. Randel, S.-P. Ho, T. Neubert, and S. Syndergaard

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