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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2291-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2291-2015
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04 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 04 Jun 2015

Evaporation from weighing precipitation gauges: impacts on automated gauge measurements and quality assurance methods

R. D. Leeper and J. Kochendorfer

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