Computation of observation sensitivity and observation impact in incremental variational data assimilation

Yannick Trémolet

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00349.x

Computation of observation sensitivity and observation impact in incremental variational data assimilation

Tellus

Volume 60 (2008): Issue 5

By: Yannick Trémolet

Open Access

|Jan 2008

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