Radar radial wind data assimilation using the time-incremental 4D-Var method implemented to the WRFDA system
By: Yonghan Choi, Gyu-Ho Lim and Dong-Kyou Lee
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.19677 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554
Language: English
Page range: 19677 - 19677
Submitted on: Sep 6, 2012
Accepted on: Aug 20, 2013
Published on: Dec 1, 2013
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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