Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-393-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-393-2013
Research article
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15 Jan 2013
Research article |  | 15 Jan 2013

Regional and monthly and clear-sky aerosol direct radiative effect (and forcing) derived from the GlobAEROSOL-AATSR satellite aerosol product

G. E. Thomas, N. Chalmers, B. Harris, R. G. Grainger, and E. J. Highwood

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