PIERS Online Vol. 5 No. 4 2009 pp: 328-335

Effect of Rainfall on Millimeter Wavelength Radio in Gough and Marion Islands

P. A. Owolawi, Thomas J. Afullo, and S. B. Malinga

doi:10.2529/PIERS080906044944

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