Observational study on the diurnal variation in precipitable water associated with the thermally induced local circulation over the "semi-basin" around Maebashi using GPS data

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1077-1091

  Iwasaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Miki, Takahiro ^a,b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Iwagami Elementary School   (Japan)

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EID: 23044531395     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.79.1077     Document Type: Article

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