Radar-based precipitation type analysis in the Baltic area

Andi Walther; Ralf Bennartz

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00183.x

Radar-based precipitation type analysis in the Baltic area

Tellus

Volume 58 (2006): Issue 3

By: Andi Walther and Ralf Bennartz

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|Jan 2006

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