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Roy G Grainger1, Jonathan Lucas, Gareth E Thomas

  • 1Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.

Applied Optics
|October 22, 2004
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