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International Journal of Earth & Environmental Sciences Volume 1 (2016), Article ID 1:IJEES-104, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2016/104
Research Article
Spatial Characteristics of Rainfall at Sparsely Distributed Station Network over the High-Latitude Mountainous Regions in Eastern Siberia

Konosuke Sugiura1,2*, Shuhei Takahashi3, Takao Kameda4, Hiroyuki Enomoto5, Yuliy Kononov6 and Maria Ananicheva6

1University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555, Japan
2Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 3173-25, Showamachi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan
3Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum of Hokkaido, 11-6, Motomombetsu, Mombetsu, Hokkaido 094-0023, Japan
4Kitami Institute of Technology, 165, Koencho, Kitami 090-8507, Japan
5Inter-university Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems, National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3, Midoricho, Tachikawa 190-8518, Japan
6Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Staromonetniy pereulok 29, Moscow 119017, Russia
Dr. Konosuke Sugiura, University of Toyama, 3190 Gofuku, Toyama 930-8555, Japan, Japan; E-mail: sugiura@sci.u-toyama.ac.jp
30 January 2016; 09 April 2016; 11 April 2016
Sugiura K, Takahashi S, Kameda T, Enomoto H, Kononov Y, et al. (2016) Spatial Characteristics of Rainfall at Sparsely Distributed Station Network over the High-Latitude Mountainous Regions in Eastern Siberia. Int J Earth Environ Sci 1: 104. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-351X/2016/104
This research was partially supported by a Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 16403006, 2004-2007, Glaciological observations in Eastern Siberia as an activity of IPY project entitled "Glaciological research in Suntar Khayata Range, East Siberia, Russia, for International Polar Year" (ID No. 393).
© 2016 Sugiura et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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