Oceanic rainfall detection and classification in tropical and subtropical mesoscale convective systems using underwater acoustic methods

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2014-2042

  Black, Peter G ^a   Proni, John R ^a   Wilkerson, John C ^b   Samsury, Christopher E ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

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EID: 0000660823     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2014:ORDACI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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