Radar rainfall estimation for ground validation studies of the tropical rainfall measuring mission

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 735-747

  Ciach, Grzegorz J ^a   Krajewski, Witold F ^a,b   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a   Baeck, Mary L ^a   Smith, James A ^c   McCollum, Jeffrey R ^a   Kruger, Anton ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAINFALL; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION;

AUSTRALIA, DARWIN;

EID: 0031399273     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450-36.6.735     Document Type: Article

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