Retrievals of mixed-phase cloud properties during the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
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Steve S. C. Ou,* K. N. Liou, X. J. Wang, D. Hagan, A. Dybdahl, M. Mussetto, L. D. Carey, J. Niu, J. A. Kankiewicz, S. Kidder, and T. H. Vonder Haar Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, California, USA Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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