Polar cirrus model case study
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Supersaturation, dehydration, and denitrification in Arctic cirrus B. Kärcher Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Received: 1 February 2005 – Accepted: 27 February 2005 – Published: 22 March 2005 Correspondence to: B. Kärcher ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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