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Cloud profiling radar for the CloudSat Mission

Im, Eastwood·Wu, Chialin·Durden, Stephen L.
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The CloudSat Mission is a new satellite mission jointly developed by NASA, JPL, the Canadian Agency, Colorado State University, and the US AirForce to acquire a global data set of vertical cloud structure and its variability.

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Im, Eastwood, Wu, Chialin, Durden, Stephen L.. 2005-05-01. Cloud profiling radar for the CloudSat Mission. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20060042900

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