Wind-induced precipitation undercatch of the Hellmann gauges

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-80

  Yang, Daqing ^a   Elomaa, Esko ^b   Tuominen, Asko ^b   Aaltonen, Ari ^b   Goodison, Barry ^h   Gunther, Thilo ^c   Golubev, Valentin ^d   Sevruk, Boris ^e   Madsen, Henning ^f   Milkovic, Janja ^g  

^a Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d STATE HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^g Hydrometeorological Institute   (Croatia)

^h SEAVANS Building North ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINGAUGE; WIND FORCING;

EID: 0033036470     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.1999.0004     Document Type: Article

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