Contribution of the TOPEX NASA Radar Altimeter to the global monitoring of large rivers and wetlands

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Water Resources Research

• Publication date

  1998-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1029/98WR00124
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