Relative humidity and cirrus cloud formation
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Freezing thresholds and cirrus cloud formation mechanisms inferred from in situ measurements of relative humidity W. Haag, B. Kärcher, J. Ström, A. Minikin, U. Lohmann, J. Ovarlez, and A. Stohl Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Stockholm University, Institute of Applied Environmental Research (ITM), Stockholm, Sweden Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) du CNRS, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France Lehrstuhl für Bioklimatologie und Immissionsforschung, Technische Universität München (TUM), Freising, Germany
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