Back to basics: The ‘met. enclosure’: Part 2(b) — raingauges, their errors

Weather

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 298-303

  Strangeways, Ian C ^a  

^a TerraData   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85010469948     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1477-8696.1996.tb06230.x     Document Type: Article

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