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Cremonini, R., Bechini, R., Campana, V., Tomassone, L. (2008). Combined use of weather radar and limited area model for wintertime precipitation type discrimination. In: Michaelides, S. (eds) Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and Prediction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77655-0_18
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