Measuring information content from observations for data assimilations: utilities of spectral formulations demonstrated with radar observations
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2011.00542.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 1014 - 1027
Submitted on: May 22, 2011
Accepted on: Jul 14, 2011
Published on: Jan 1, 2011
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2011 Qin Xu, Li Wei, published by Stockholm University Press
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