Using lagged covariances in data assimilation

C. M. Thomas; K. Haines

doi:10.1080/16000870.2017.1377589

Using lagged covariances in data assimilation

Tellus

Volume 69 (2017): Issue 1

By: C. M. Thomas and K. Haines

Open Access

|Jan 2017

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