Quality assurance in the FMI doppler weather radar network

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 579-594

  Saltikoff, Elena ^a   Huuskonen, Asko ^a   Hohti, Harri ^a   Koistinen, Jarmo ^a   Järvinen, Heikki ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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