Biomass smoke from southern Africa can significantly enhance the brightness of stratocumulus over the southeastern Atlantic Ocean

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2018-03-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1713703115PMID 29507214PMCID PMC5866543
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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