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Variational assimilation of time sequences of surface observations with serially correlated errors Cover

Variational assimilation of time sequences of surface observations with serially correlated errors

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|Jan 1999

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Language: English
Page range: 469 - 488
Submitted on: Dec 15, 1998
Accepted on: Apr 30, 1999
Published on: Jan 1, 1999
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1999 Heikki Järvinen, Erik Andersson, François Bouttier, published by Stockholm University Press
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