Introducing the new generation of Chinese geostation ary weat her satellites, Fengyun-4

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1637-1658

  Yang, Jun ^a   Zhang, Zhiqing ^a   Wei, Caiying ^a   Lu, Feng ^a   Guo, Qiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES; HIGH IMPACT; WEATHER EVENTS;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

EID: 85026574373     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0065.1     Document Type: Article

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