Retrieval of cirrus cloud top height over ocean based on multi-angle polarized information

LI Shu; SUN Xiao-Bing; TI Ru-Fang; HUANG Hong-Lian; CHEN Zhen-Ting; QIAO Yan-Li

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.04.012

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