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spellingShingle Horváth, Ákos, Davies, Roger, Geophysical Research Letters, Anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: A comparison of measurements and 1D theory, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics
title Anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: A comparison of measurements and 1D theory
title_full Anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: A comparison of measurements and 1D theory
title_fullStr Anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: A comparison of measurements and 1D theory
title_full_unstemmed Anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: A comparison of measurements and 1D theory
title_short Anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: A comparison of measurements and 1D theory
title_sort anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: a comparison of measurements and 1d theory
title_unstemmed Anisotropy of water cloud reflectance: A comparison of measurements and 1D theory
topic General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2003gl018386