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Bauer, P., Lopez, P., Moreau, E., Chevallier, F., Benedetti, A., Bonazzola, M. (2007). The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Global Rainfall Data Assimilation Experimentation. In: Levizzani, V., Bauer, P., Turk, F.J. (eds) Measuring Precipitation From Space. Advances In Global Change Research, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5835-6_35
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