Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1153-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1153-2014
Research article
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06 May 2014
Research article |  | 06 May 2014

An improved algorithm for polar cloud-base detection by ceilometer over the ice sheets

K. Van Tricht, I. V. Gorodetskaya, S. Lhermitte, D. D. Turner, J. H. Schween, and N. P. M. Van Lipzig

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