Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-1131-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-15-1131-2011
Research article
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06 Apr 2011
Research article |  | 06 Apr 2011

South African Weather Service operational satellite based precipitation estimation technique: applications and improvements

E. de Coning and E. Poolman

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