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DISTANCE FROM FRONT IN KILOMETERS 

 Figure 5.61. Epoch chart, Dodge City, Kans., in A units. 



5.9. References 



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Book, Meteorological Factors in Radio Wave Propagation, (Phys. Soc. and 



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Geofis. Pura Appl. 13, 88. 

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at 96.3 Mc between Richmond, Va., and Washington, D.C., Bull. Am. Meteorol. 



Soc. 35, 56-59. 

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ondes decimetriques et centimetriques, Ann. Telecommun. 12, 189-194. 

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1678-1683. 

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