Understanding the Sources of Satellite Passive Microwave Rainfall Retrieval Systematic Errors Over Land
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1558-8424,1558-8432
DOI: 10.1175/jamc-d-16-0174.1