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An unconventional approach for assimilating aliased radar radial velocities

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Volume 61 (2009): Issue 5
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|Jan 2009
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2009.00412.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
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Language: English
Page range: 621 - 630
Submitted on: Apr 22, 2009
Accepted on: Jul 22, 2009
Published on: Jan 1, 2009
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2009 Qin Xu, Kang Nai, Li Wei, Qingyun Zhao, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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