Monitoring Mesoscale Convective Cloud Systems Associated with Heavy Storms Using Meteosat Imagery
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Meteorology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0894-8763,1520-0450
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2001)040<0491:mmccsa>2.0.co;2