Back to basics: Measuring rainfall at sea: Part 1 - In situ sensors

Weather

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 315-320

  Quartly, G D ^a   Guymer, T H ^a   Birch, K G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 4544363969     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/00431650260283488     Document Type: Article

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