Articles | Volume 14, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6729-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6729-2014
Research article
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03 Jul 2014
Research article |  | 03 Jul 2014

On clocks and clouds

M. K. Witte, P. Y. Chuang, and G. Feingold

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