Articles | Volume 6, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2181-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2181-2013
Research article
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29 Aug 2013
Research article |  | 29 Aug 2013

Rainfall measurement from the opportunistic use of an Earth–space link in the Ku band

L. Barthès and C. Mallet

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