Effect of targeted dropsonde observations and best track data on the track forecasts of Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) using an ensemble Kalman filter
By: Byoung-Joo Jung, Hyun Mee Kim, Fuqing Zhang and Chun-Chieh Wu
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