Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1605-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1605-2015
Research article
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27 Mar 2015
Research article |  | 27 Mar 2015

Meso-scale modelling and radiative transfer simulations of a snowfall event over France at microwaves for passive and active modes and evaluation with satellite observations

V. S. Galligani, C. Prigent, E. Defer, C. Jimenez, P. Eriksson, J.-P. Pinty, and J.-P. Chaboureau

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