Snowfall Measurement Using Lidar Ceilometers, Radars and Snow Gauges
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1 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kanazawa University Kakuma, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan ( † Tel: +81-76-234-4890; † E-mail: [email protected]) 2 Toyama National College of Technology Hongo, Toyama 939-8630, Japan 3 Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 4 Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University Kita-19, Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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