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Goldfarb et al. 2001
Goldfarb, L., Keckhut, P., Chanin, M.-L. and Hauchecorne, A. (2001). Cirrus climatological results from lidar measurements at OHP (44°N, 6°E). Geophysical Research Letters 28: doi: 10.1029/2000GL012701. issn: 0094-8276.

A climatology of cirrus clouds over the Observatoire de Haute Provence in France has been constructed from the analysis of ground-based lidar measurements taken from 1997 to 1999. During this period the high-resolution Rayleigh/Mie lidar collected 384 nights of measurements and cirrus profiles are observed in about half of these cases. We find subvisible cirrus (&tgr;<0.03) constitute ~20% of cirrus cloud occurrences and that the mean thickness of a subvisible cirrus cloud layer is less than 1 km. A discussion of the error associated with these determinations is also presented. ¿ 2001 American Geophysical Union

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Cloud physics and chemistry, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Remote sensing
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Geophysical Research Letters
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