Wegener net a pioneering high-resolution network for monitoring weather and climate

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 227-242

  Kirchengast, Gottfried ^a   Kabas, Thomas ^a   Leuprecht, Armin ^a   Bichler, Christoph ^a   Truhetz, Heimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY;

AUSTRIA; CLIMATE STATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LONG TERM MONITORING; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84898621792     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00161.1     Document Type: Article

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