Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-727-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-727-2012
Research article
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16 Jan 2012
Research article |  | 16 Jan 2012

On the observation of unusual high concentration of small chain-like aggregate ice crystals and large ice water contents near the top of a deep convective cloud during the CIRCLE-2 experiment

J.-F. Gayet, G. Mioche, L. Bugliaro, A. Protat, A. Minikin, M. Wirth, A. Dörnbrack, V. Shcherbakov, B. Mayer, A. Garnier, and C. Gourbeyre

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