Estimation and correction of surface wind-stress bias in the Tropical Pacific with the Ensemble Kalman Filter

Olwijn Leeuwenburgh

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00325.x

Estimation and correction of surface wind-stress bias in the Tropical Pacific with the Ensemble Kalman Filter

Tellus

Volume 60 (2008): Issue 4

By: Olwijn Leeuwenburgh

Open Access

|Jan 2008

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