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Error growth and predictability in operational ECMWF forecasts

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|Jan 1987

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Language: English
Page range: 474 - 491
Submitted on: Feb 21, 1986
Accepted on: Dec 29, 1986
Published on: Jan 1, 1987
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1987 Amnon Dalcher, Eugenia Kalnay, published by Stockholm University Press
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