Back to basics: Measuring rainfall at sea: Part 2-Space-borne sensors

Weather

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 363-366

  Quartly, G D ^a   Guymer, T H ^a   Srokosz, M A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0242698566     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/wea.198.01     Document Type: Article

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