Cloud phase identification of low-level Arctic clouds
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Cloud phase identification of low-level Arctic clouds from airborne spectral radiation measurements: test of three approaches A. Ehrlich, E. Bierwirth, M. Wendisch, J.-F. Gayet, G. Mioche, A. Lampert, and J. Heintzenberg Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz, Germany Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique (LAMP), Univ. Blaise Pascal, Aubière Cedex, France Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany Received: 22 July 2008 – Accepted: 22 July 2008 – Published: 20 August 2008 Correspondence to: A. Ehrlich ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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