Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2975-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-2975-2013
Research article
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15 Mar 2013
Research article |  | 15 Mar 2013

An assessment of CALIOP polar stratospheric cloud composition classification

M. C. Pitts, L. R. Poole, A. Lambert, and L. W. Thomason

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