Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1839-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1839-2014
Research article
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25 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 25 Jun 2014

Improved scattering radiative transfer for frozen hydrometeors at microwave frequencies

A. J. Geer and F. Baordo

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