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  1. The author would like to thank both Nils Güttler and the editors for their constructive feedback, and the latter for the smooth processing of this article as well.

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Wille, RJ. Absent Balloons? How a Global Germany Contributed to a European Physics of the Atmosphere. N.T.M. 32, 81–92 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00048-023-00373-y

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