Impacts on sea ice analyses from the assumption of uncorrelated ice thickness observation errors: Experiments using a 1D toy model
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2018.1445379 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 1445379 - 1445379
Submitted on: Sep 25, 2017
Accepted on: Feb 20, 2018
Published on: Jan 1, 2018
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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