GPM/DPR precipitation compared with a 3.5-km-resolution NICAM simulation

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 204-209

  Kotsuki, Shunji ^a   Terasaki, Koji ^a   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a,b,c  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 84920647119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2014-043     Document Type: Article

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