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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1335-1342

  Elmore, Kimberly L ^a   Flamig, Z L ^a   Lakshmanan, V ^a   Kaney, B T ^a   Farmer, V ^b   Reeves, Heather D ^a   Rothfusz, Lans P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b INDUS Corp   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; HTTP; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; IMMEDIATE FEEDBACKS; KEY FEATURE; MOBILE APPS; MOBILE PLATFORM; PERSISTENT STORAGE; PUBLIC REPORTS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84905002232     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00014.1     Document Type: Article

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