Cumulative Time Statistics of Surface-Point Rainfall Rates

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1973, Pages 1131-1136

  Rice, Philip L ^a   Holmberg, Nettie R ^a  

^a Institute for Telecommunication Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY - ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATION; RADIO TRANSMISSION - PROPAGATION EFFECTS;

RAIN AND RAINFALL;

EID: 0015670669     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOM.1973.1091546     Document Type: Article

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