Articles | Volume 19, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1141-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1141-2015
Research article
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02 Mar 2015
Research article |  | 02 Mar 2015

Polarimetric radar observations during an orographic rain event

M. Frech and J. Steinert

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