The quality of satellite precipitable water content data and their impact on analyzed moisture fields

Lodovica Illari

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v41i4.11844

The quality of satellite precipitable water content data and their impact on analyzed moisture fields

Tellus

Volume 41 (1989): Issue 4

By: Lodovica Illari

Open Access

|Jan 1989

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