Articles | Volume 17, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5947-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-5947-2017
Research article
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15 May 2017
Research article |  | 15 May 2017

Derivation of aerosol profiles for MC3E convection studies and use in simulations of the 20 May squall line case

Ann M. Fridlind, Xiaowen Li, Di Wu, Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Andrew S. Ackerman, Wei-Kuo Tao, Greg M. McFarquhar, Wei Wu, Xiquan Dong, Jingyu Wang, Alexander Ryzhkov, Pengfei Zhang, Michael R. Poellot, Andrea Neumann, and Jason M. Tomlinson

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