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Operational assimilation of GPS slant path delay measurements into the MM5 4DVAR system

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|Jan 2011

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Language: English
Page range: 263 - 282
Submitted on: Jan 8, 2010
Accepted on: Sep 27, 2010
Published on: Jan 1, 2011
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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