Characteristics of the TOVS Pathfinder Path A Dataset

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1449-1472

  Susskind, Joel ^a,d   Piraino, P ^b   Rokke, L ^b,c   Iredell, L ^b   Mehta, A ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Un of Maryland   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

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EID: 0642339589     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<1449:COTTPP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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