Spatial Coherence of Rainfall Variations Using the Oklahoma Mesonet
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چکیده
Jointly owned by the University of Oklahoma (OU) and Oklahoma State University (OSU), the Oklahoma Mesonet has provided valuable meteorological measurements since the early 1990’s. With over 110 stations located across the state of Oklahoma, the Mesonet is a state-ofthe-art network that measures several hydrological, agricultural, and meteorological variables (Brock et al. 1995; McPherson et al. 2006).
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