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Assimilation of low-level wind in a high-resolution mesoscale model using the back and forth nudging algorithm

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Language: English
Page range: 18697 - 18697
Submitted on: Nov 17, 2011
Published on: Dec 1, 2012
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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