Assessing uncertainty in radar measurements on simplified meteorological scenarios

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 141-146

  Molini, L ^a   Parodi, A ^a   Rebora, N ^a   Siccardi, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGERY; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33646377425     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-7-141-2006     Document Type: Article

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