Articles | Volume 6, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2641-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2641-2013
Research article
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15 Oct 2013
Research article |  | 15 Oct 2013

Investigation of ground-based microwave radiometer calibration techniques at 530 hPa

G. Maschwitz, U. Löhnert, S. Crewell, T. Rose, and D. D. Turner

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