Rain observations with a vertically looking Micro Rain Radar (MRR)

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 353-362

  Peters, Gerhard ^a   Fischer, Bernd ^a   Andersson, Tage ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

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