Atmospheric Latent Heating Distributions in the Tropics Derived from Satellite Passive Microwave Radiometer Measurements
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Meteorology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0894-8763,1520-0450
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0633:alhdit>2.0.co;2