An operational upper air analysis using the variational method

John M. Lewis

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v24i6.10679

An operational upper air analysis using the variational method

Tellus

Volume 24 (1972): Issue 6

By: John M. Lewis

Open Access

|Jan 1972

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