Impacts of assimilating all or GOES-like AHI infrared channels radiances on QPFs over Eastern China

Z. Qin; X. Zou; F. Weng

doi:10.1080/16000870.2017.1345265

Impacts of assimilating all or GOES-like AHI infrared channels radiances on QPFs over Eastern China

Tellus

Volume 69 (2017): Issue 1

By: Z. Qin, X. Zou and F. Weng

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|Jan 2017

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