Revisiting "ground truth" - Asessment of wind and out-of-level collector funnel effects on rain gauge catch

11th Conference on Mesoscale Processes and the 32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2083-2087

  Steiner, Matthias ^a,c   Sieck, Lisa C ^b   Burges, Stephen J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

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